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Though his proud fellow citizens like to think of him as their own Mike Hammer, Milan's Tommaso Ponzi, 37, really does not quite meet TV specifications for a private eye. Big Tom weighs 270 lbs., is a happily married homebody (three children) who has no time for slinky blondes. But otherwise, Tom is up to fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Alias Mike Hammer | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...another month big labor, in the form of the United Steelworkers of America, will sit down with big business, in the form of U.S. steel company executives, to hammer out a new contract that will not only set the pattern for steel but also for dozens of other industries. As negotiations approach, the two sides are so far apart -and so adamant about it-that they may not be able to get together short of a long strike or a surrender by management, either of which would harm the recovering economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL NEGOTIATIONS: The Issues Dwarf the Arguments | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Florida jaunt, coach Bill McCurdy uncovered some outstanding hidden talent, and the most encouraging surprise of all was probably sophomore Stan Doten. Even while hindered by inexperience and a severe sunburn, Doten gained an amazing amount of polish in the hammer throw, finally topping his more experienced teammates with an excellent 166 ft. heave...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

Field events may be the team's strong point. Doten and Jim Doty in the hammer, Abbot and Doty in the shot, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, and Blodgett in the pole vault lead a strong group that should produce a few sweeps before the season is over...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

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