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Only One Compromise. The Giants got a bargain. Almost 38, Jackie Robinson is far slower afield and less powerful at bat (.275) than in his heyday of six successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...
...Lust for Beauty. In its heyday, Venice pioneered the income tax, statistical science, the floating of government stock, state censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers...
...more. Their consensus: a brilliant comedienne. Having previously all but ignored Marilyn's presence in Britain, the austere Times showed its rare enthusiastic side and proclaimed of Marilyn's performance in Bus Stop (TIME. Sept. 3): "What a partner she would have been for Chaplin in his heyday!" Thrummed the Daily Mail: "She reaffirms her position as the screen's most grown-up child actress...
...even in its pre-Nasser heyday, when shares reached $355 (in 1954), had the Canal Company inspired such excitement. Its stock was always the kind of security that Frenchmen, who own 45% of the shares, put away for old age; the British government, which originally called the project a "bubble scheme" for "gullible capitalists," later bought 44% of the shares for ?4,000,000, has netted a handsome 26%-a-year return on its original investment...
...complement the regular schedule," boasted the network. But what TV chains have apparently overlooked is that some of the "great" oldtimers may not look so shiny today. Last week's big TV movie, Top Hat, for example, did not look as good as it did in its heyday (1935). The Irving Berlin-Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers combo was still sprightly, but technically Top Hat showed...