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...Athens like a rich man's John D. Rockefeller. Some of his more offhand gestures have included chartering a steamship for a royalty-only romp in 1954 chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other end of the sea aboard the Creole; he was "too busy" to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The New Argonauts | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving his car and lying in bed at night. The only thing that would distract him was his African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing 27 balls, taking 1,275 strokes, and after 10 hr. 50 min. holed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...wage theories of big-league baseball players have always been as uncomplicated as the appetite of Oliver Twist. What they want is more. What they will get, announced Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick last week, is exactly that. For the privilege of broadcasting the next five years All-Star and World Series games on radio and television, NBC has promised to pay a whopping $16,250,000. And, since 60% of the profits is already earmarked for the nine-year-old Annuity and Insurance Plan, retirement benefits for retired baseballers may soon jump to $300, perhaps as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money in the Bank | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Baseball (Tues. 12:45 P-m., NBC). All-star game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Three members of the Crimson baseball nine placed on the recent Greater Boston League All-Star Team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Places 3 on GBL All-Star Team | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

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