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...early partner, Silversmith Edward C. Moore. Thus, when Manhattan Real Estate Operator Irving Maidman and Bulova Watch Co. talked of taking over Tiffany's and replacing its genteel tradition with the code of the hard sell (TIME, Aug. 8), Tiffany's Fifth Avenue neighbors shuddered with well-bred distress...
...electricity costs less than half (3 mills per kwh) the average in Britain, indicated in its Geneva revelations that it may be able to produce nuclear power at as little as 4 mills per kw-h by 1970, depending partly on how much byproduct plutonium and U-233 is bred from reactors. The first big U.S. nuclear power plant, a uranium-fueled, pressurized water reactor at Shippings-port, Pa., will start delivering 60,000 kw. to Pittsburgh...
...most remarkable performance was put on by Newcomer Ernie Banks, the Chicago Cubs' young (24), Dallas-bred Negro shortstop, who in his second major-league season was running neck and neck with his elders. The record so far: a .296 average, 89 runs batted in, 37 home runs. At Chicago's Wrigley Field, gangling (6 ft.1 in.) Righthander Ernie Banks drilled out six homers last week alone...
Most recent canvas on the list was Election Night (donated by Joseph H. Hirshhorn), which bitter, Boston-bred Expressionist Jack Levine finished only last winter. An elaborate satire, coruscating with brilliant bits of still life, filled with unhappy specimens of real life and veiled in silvery, glancing lights, Levine's picture was designed to hold both the eye and the mind. As of the moment, almost no one places Levine among the "masters" of modern art. But at 40, Levine is not afraid to paint pictures that demand mastery; he has brilliance, seriousness and a sense...
After World War II, when harness racing caught the public eye, and horse-players learned to tolerate the nighttime trots, Little Joe and his string built a reputation wherever standard-bred horses drew sulkies. In 1952 Joe gave up his own stables to go to work as trainer for California Cotton and Tobacco Farmer Sol A. Camp, a well-heeled horse lover who owned some of the best trotters and pacers in harness. Ever since, under Little Joe's hand, Camp's horses have been coming home with rewarding regularity...