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...success of low-priced lodging in part reflects effective marketing. Red Roof Inns advertises with signboards that say SLEEP CHEAP. Says President Trueman: "It may be grammatically incorrect, but it sure pulls travelers off the highway." His occupancy rate of 84% is the highest in the economy-lodging industry...
...cast boasts no identifiable names, but the faces are familiar, mostly from television commercials. All the actors - Peter Brocco, Frances Fuller, William Hansen. Ruth McDevitt, Paula Trueman, Ian Wolfe - muster up a dignity that is touching under the cir cumstances. The key question, really, is not even why or how this movie was made, but for whom...
Elephant Bird. Responding to the U.S. challenge, the Daily Mail arranged for Cricketer Freddie Trueman to bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor...
...light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered. cane-thumping farmer of great wealth and rectitude...
...Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (ret.), 53, Dwight Eisenhower's chief press officer in SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry...