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...TIME'S sports jinx myth was dying, TIME'S youngest sister publication, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, reached its lively first birthday. In its anniversary issue this week, SI assays the gold in what it calls the new golden age of sports, and reports on some of its own accomplishments. SI has made some notable contributions to sports coverage in its first year: a wide use of color photography; detailed Previews of major events; the new Conversation Piece, a revealing report on sports greats in their own words, e.g., Pitcher Preacher Roe's admission that he threw illegal spit balls...
...Si's regular staff of editors also rounded up a roster of expert contributors, ranging from Herbert Warren Wind in golf and Davis Cup Captain William F. Talbert in tennis to such talented amateurs as Nobelman William Faulkner. The Faulkner story of the Kentucky Derby so impressed Bing Crosby that The Groaner read it in three installments on his radio show...
...minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...Rome government, which has prevented energetic private exploitation of oil up north, Sicily in 1950 let Gulf Oil Corp. come in and develop oil fields to a current 500-barrel-a-day output, with an eventual royalty of 20% for Sicily. Though the Communists originally voted for the Si cilian law, they have now reversed them selves and are trying to convert the oil issue into a gusher of votes...
...shimmered in white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl lost in the wicked world...