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...hundred shapes, whether exquisite and chic or plain and substantial, wrought with precision by careful hand or knocked out en masse by machine, littered with "jewels" at a cost in the neighborhood of $150 or woven of raffia for $2.99, sandals are increasingly the newest, the nicest and the niftiest way to step out in style. The squares? Swinging. The beats? Beaten...
...first six fights, five by knockouts, and most of them before the fourth round. He was ragged enough to make his managers blush, but he was 6 ft. 3 in. tall, weighed 195 lbs., and he seemed to be growing as fast as he talked. He also had the niftiest pair of legs since Sugar Ray Robinson. One day in February 1961, he showed up in Miami, where Ingemar Johansson was training for his third fight with Floyd Patterson. Could he spar a little? Cassius asked innocently, and proceeded to dance rings around Johansson. The big Swede went into...
...signers and counter-signers, collateral and credit investigators, a man who can chisel a bank is rare indeed. Last week, after a fortnight at their adding machines, red-faced country bankers in three Eastern states totted up losses of better than $800,000 as victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this...
...rolled up that score with some of the niftiest, take-a-chance razzle-dazzle ever seen in the radio game. When other networks feared to transcribe big nighttime shows, ABC risked it; last week ABC's transcribed Bing Crosby show got one of the top Hooperatings: 25.8. Last fall a quick-thinking young ABC executive jumped to the phone the moment he finished reading John Hersey's Hiroshima in the New Yorker, got exclusive broadcast privileges for ABC from the magazine. This week Hiroshima won ABC a Peabody Award (see below...
Opening. First night, the glowing gold curtain went up as usual on the audience which is the last glittering show in western civilization. In the Diamond Horseshoe, niftiest railbirds were Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Leonora Warner (see cut). No one paid much attention to the opera, which was one of the lasting achievements of western civilization-the tender, comic Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus...