Richard Petty

July, 1966

A living exemplar of practice making perfect, lean and lanky James Coburn put in six years of yeoman's service as a top Hollywood supporting actor before taking a firm fix on starring-role status in one of the year's campiest cinematic spy spoofs, Our Man Flint. As Derek Flint, filmdom's farthest-out secret agent, Coburn singlehandedly saves the world from the take-over tactics of Galaxy's maddest scientists by relying on his trusty cigarette lighter with 82 different and devastating functions,...