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...show is Sammy Davis Jr., 29, who in the past four months has become one of the hottest acts in the nation's gaudier nightclubs-Las Vegas' Last Frontier, Hollywood's Giro's, Miami Beach's Copa City. Last week Davis was packing them in at Manhattan's Copacabana, and columnists were hurling exclamation points. Variety's verdict: "In the main, socko." Yet Davis has been doing much the same act since before the war, sometimes without making enough money to buy a new pair of pants...
After Sonja Henie, onetime world figure-skating champion, now a shrewd ice-show promoter, tossed a $15,000 circus costume party at Giro's nightclub in Hollywood, one of her 200 guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
...Artist Giro forget to put eleven men on the defensive team, or does he believe that football is played like hockey, with men being sent to the penalty...
TIME, Aug. 30 and Artist Giro are to be congratulated most sincerely on the remarkably expressive portrait of Burma's U Nu-a message of calm intelligence from the East to the West...
...first TIME cover to carry the signature of "Giro" was that of General Dwight Eisenhower (Sept. 13. 1943). Since then Guy has done some 60 cover portraits for TIME. One which he remembers rather quizzically was the cover on Russia's former police boss, Lavrenty Beria (July 20, 1953) During his work on Beria, a rush order came from another magazine for a portrait of St. Paul. "It was," says Guy, "a matter of working alternate days on good and evil...