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Tip on a Dead Jockey (MGM) offers a transposed version (from Paris to Madrid) of Irwin Shaw's story about an ex-Air Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Although this is the guts of Globemanship, there is a steamer-trunkful of indispensible ploys that must be learned to back up your initial position. Looking European will help. Buy a belted jacket and a pair of black Italian sandals, be generous with tins of Players' cigarettes, and affect a...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Gene R. Kearney, S | Title: Globemanship: I | 9/30/1954 | See Source »

One driver fitted out his Ford with a hot-and-cold water system; a Melbourne innkeeper showed up with a trunkful of frozen food and a two-week supply of wines. But wiser entrants in the Redex* 9,600-mile, round-Australia stock-car trial prepared for trouble. They came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Down Under | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Kempton Webb '53 and Richard Kimball '52 are bound for Peru with a 1929 Ford and a trunkful of mountain-climbing equipment. They are shipping the automobile to Venezuela and from there they will drive along the Andean Highway to Lima.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South-bound Students Head for Hills in Heap | 5/24/1952 | See Source »

Most of the reaction was favorable, however, and Withington still has a "trunkful" of fan letters and newspaper clippings. Job offers poured in, and he was subsequently elected to his class Smoker Comittee.

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Goldfish Swallowing: College Fad Started Here, Spread Over World | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

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