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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gurgled Defiance. No diver till he took the job. Bridges has quickly become the world's best-known underwater actor, picks up tidy extra income on his merchandising tie-in with a rubber company that makes "Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey...
Since the first of these votive offerings was discovered in the 18th century, more than 400 have been uncovered. The best are now on display at Sardinia's National Museum at Cagliari. Despite their small dimensions, they have dignity and mystery, qualities that made them heavy with totemic power and points of reassurance in a time when minute man moved against a background of threatening and capricious nature...
After World War II, Horiuchi made his way to Spokane and Zen Master Takizaki, who had greatly influenced Mark Tobey. His work became an exciting blend of abstraction and traditional Japanese painting. At his best, Horiuchi manages to combine a sense of the mysterious depths of an ancient heritage (often suggested by weathered scraps decorated with archaic Japanese calligraphy) with moody, grey and color-flecked images of Pacific landscape, mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into...
...Frank Sinatra, Winchell's current shrine character, reserved three tables for opening night (but failed to show up). The Milton Berles, George Raft, Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were all there. Thoughtful ex-Gambler Mickey Cohen sent flowers and a personal emissary: "Mickey thought it was for the best he should'na come, Walter." "Yeah," said Walter, "it's just as well...
...Best Bargain. Like many another big-league ballplayer-Bob Feller, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays-Bill Mazeroski benefits from an asset even more valuable than his own hard-muscled (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 lbs.) frame: the ambitions of a baseball-frustrated father. Lewis Mazeroski, whose own baseball hopes ended when a coal-mining accident forced the amputation of part of his right foot, began playing catch with his son in the stony backyards of Ohio coal towns just as soon as young Bill could walk...