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...Merry Partners, by E. J. Kahn Jr. A nostalgic stroll through the bygone world of Harrigan and Hart, top-billed vaudeville team of the '70snd '80s, with many an off-Broadway glance at the New York of their heyday (TIME...
Happy Instrument. Banjo Teacher Walter Kaye Bauer of Hartford, Conn., whose big banjo band fills a 2,200-seat auditorium for its annual concert, believes the instrument is being better played now than in its heyday. "In the '20s a few of us warned that the professionals would kill the goose because they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces...
Only burial tombs and a few walls remain of their once-sumptuous cities, their ancient Greek script is largely undeciphered, most of their art has been dispersed and lost. But in their heyday, from 700 to 400 B.C., these ancient, vigorous people controlled most of central Italy and the Po River valley and Elba and Corsica...
...cool, skillful technician, completely devoid of Latin temperament, utterly dependent upon his knowledge of engines and his exquisite reflexes, Alberto ("Ciccio")* Ascari finally hit his stride in the auto-racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He worked up a fine feud with Argentina's Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. In Brazil one day in 1949, he swung too wide on a turn, hit a roadside rock, turned turtle and wound up with a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and three fewer teeth than he started with...
...green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...