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...carefully cultivated images of Miami Beach is the lissome body of a bathing beauty -the finals of one national and one international beauty contest are held there. A different-shaped image is Comedian Jackie Gleason, who last year was persuaded by the resort's superflack, Hank Meyer, to telecast all his shows from there, and is planning to build himself a $100,000 house just north of the Beach. Another image of Miami Beach is that of a grinning fellow with dark glasses and a palm-fringed background urging TV audiences to "Come on down...
...victim of New York's "lily-white bench and underworld-controlled judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers, Terry Lindsay, "Skippy" Martin and "Hank" Hawkins, were known, but "have been sheltered by the police." Moreover, Esther James, the 68-year-old domestic whom Powell had already libeled, was the "finger woman" for the murder...
...Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson, 27: the American League's Most Valuable Player Award for 1964, breaking a four-year Yankee monopoly. Third Baseman Robinson hit 28 home runs, led the league in RBIs (118), and produced the hits that kept Hank Bauer's Birds within reach of the pennant until the last of the season. - Notre Dame: a crushing 28-0 victory over Iowa to remain unbeaten, untied and unchallenged as the nation's No. 1 college team. Michigan defeated Ohio State 10-0, winning its first Big Ten Championship in 14 years and a trip...
Highlight of the festival was a premiere of the movie Your Cheatin' Heart, the life story of Singer-Songwriter Hank Williams, the "hillbilly Shakespeare." The songs on the sound track are sung by Williams' son, Hank Jr., 16, who wheels around town in the white Cadillac in which his father was found dead of a heart attack on New Year's Day 1953, at the age of 29 ("He just lived himself to death," the legend goes...
...Baltimore's Hank Bauer, 42: the Associated Press poll for American League Manager of the Year. Bauer's Birds were figured as also-rans by the experts, but their granite-chunk skipper (TiME cover, Sept. 1 1) kept them in first place for most of the season before they finally fluttered back to third-thus earning himself 53 out of the 83 ballots cast by sportswriters...