He turned the Alpe into an instant legend because this was the year that motorcycle television crews first came to the Tour.

Gimblett's entry into first-class cricket in May 1935 was instant legend.

His cavils were useless, however; the instant legend was moving too fast to be derailed.

The story became an instant legend around the hospital.

His success with women became an instant legend; it verged on the uncanny.

They became instant legends in a ragged waterfront neighborhood addicted to boxing.

Such was the journey of "42d Street," from tryout in turmoil to instant legend.

Mingus was larger than life, a man whose appetites for rare beef, red wine, good-looking women, talk and violence made him an instant legend.

And nothing moves faster than television's power to create instant legends.

His death at the age of twenty-four made him an instant legend.