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...solo flight across the Atlantic 30 years ago. Determined that the younger generation should not confuse the Lone Eagle with Sitting Bull, or with Jimmy Stewart, 47, the film's Lindbergh, the studio detailed Tab Hunter, 25 (who does not appear in Spirit), to tout the movie in high schools and colleges, and give a from-the-heart sell to the Missile-Age young who make up most of today's dwindling movie audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Another Color. In Miami Beach, Fla., arrested for possession of horse-betting equipment, Joseph Matthews told cops why he carried a set of earplugs: "I use them so other people can't tout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Shall I? Manager sans avoir falm faire l'amour en tout temps...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...King of the Bookies. Hill learned the business as a bookies' runner, set himself up in business while still a teenager. He went broke once, before he got enough capital to withstand the heavy losses on the days the bettors "beat the books." No mobster or furtive tout, Bill now has his own Hill House, a palatial office building in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus. As the 1955-56 professional football got under way he looked to another busy year of booking bets. He expects to handle $16,-800,000 in soccer bets, $51,800,000 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: King of the Bookies | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...signed a mutual defense pact, while Attlee and his band of traveling Laborites padded about Communist China, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sat in the wings, grumbling softly. But last week the Asian stage was clear of intruders at last, and Pandit Nehru stepped forth to tout his own magical formula for getting peace in our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Five Easy Steps | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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