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Perfectionist. In Keokuk, Iowa, after Service Station Attendant Dewayne Gray, 22, serviced a customer's car, getting it in tiptop shape, he grabbed $229 from the cash register, climbed into the car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...loss of the gold cars that makes me feel like this. And weren't they fun? They were like my children. No, it's that lovely party I was planning for 25,000 B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Gold-Plated Daimler | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...picked for his care. By Act of Congress, they may admit and treat civilians designated by the Secretaries of Army and Navy. By chance, most Senators seem to go to Bethesda,* most Representatives to Walter Reed-no one knows why. Civilians pay $17 a day for bed and tiptop care (a bargain, but not exactly a giveaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pools of Healing | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Vegas; reservations for her show were running ahead of the records set by such semidraped past performers as Marlene Dietrich and Terry Moore. Never breathless except when stirred by her own emotions, Mae explained why she is still in tiptop shape: "I walked five miles a day with two men for three months before coming up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...purpose. Beloved in the '90s, Sherlock Holmes is in tiptop legendary health today. He has not even been killed by the deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the same time. On the contrary, it is the fairy-tale quality of his world that has kept Holmes alive: he wields his magic wand in a never-never land where all cops are laughable simpletons, all locks susceptible to the key of logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dottle from Baker Street | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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