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For Baltimore, winning the American League pennant-or just beating those Double Damn Yankees-would be sweet revenge indeed. Baltimore and baseball once went together like Boston and beans: the original Orioles won three straight National League pennants in the 1890s. Then came disaster: Star Players John J. McGraw and...
The mighty Yankees, winners of 28 pennants and 20 World Series, were now in showbiz. The terms called for CBS to pay Yankee Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb $11.2 million cash for 80% of the franchise. Topping and Webb would retain 10% each until 1969, after which CBS had...
Though obviously silly, an August vacation was still chic. At St. Tropez alone, Premier Georges Pompidou, Conductor Herbert von Karajan, Artist Bernard Buffet and Author Franchise Sagan were dining and dancing. Brigitte Bardot arrived, then left when she could not find a maid. There were so many of the young...
Tossed in amidst sprouting red volcanoes, traffic lights, an orchestra, lightning, tricolored smoke, tankers, sail boats and quiet pastoral scenes stand 110 greats of the history of science. To make things less bewildering for the literate, Dufy labeled the figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran...
Although lean, leather-faced "R.M." got his big break as a pilot, he started out on the ground. In 1931 he set up a country jitney service with a secondhand Studebaker, did so well he soon had twelve cars. But the government refused him a franchise to operate into Melbourne...