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Last week the Hi-Lo's brought their far-from-tattered voices to Manhattan for the first time, and proved to the jazz-wise Birdland audience that when they are not kidding, they can husk out just about the slickest sound in the current trade. "We like to sing," says Hi-Lo's Leader Gene Puerling, "almost like a string quartet...
...could not seem to work the double pickoff play that was meant to give Sharpshooter Bill Sharman (TIME, Dec. 31) time and space in which to sink his shots. St. Louis' stringy little veteran. Slater Martin, was sticking to Celtic Bob Cousy like an overanxious bill collector. The slickest ball-handler in the game. Cousy shook himself loose and scored from the floor only twice in 20 tries...
...that was needed to complete Vanderlyn's good fortune was a New York reputation to match the fame he enjoyed in Paris. He returned in 1815, confidently bearing with him the pictures Paris had admired. Among them was the slickest nude yet painted by an American, a solid, polished essay in sensuality, made respectable, he hoped, by its title: Ariadne. But Ariadne shocked his staid American contemporaries, who denounced the picture as an example of European depravity...
...Building, there were beaming smiles all around. On one side of the 20-ft. glass-topped table sat the 18-man auto workers' committee, led by Vice President Jack Livingston, 46, one of the founders of the U.A.W. and now respected as one of labor's slickest horse-traders. Opposite was ranged the 23-man G.M. team, headed by Vice President Harry Anderson, 64, a lawyer who worked his way up from a small G.M. subsidiary to chief of all company labor relations...
...Amateur Hockey Association reached into the Far West and picked British Columbia's Penticton Vs to take a crack at regaining the championship. Canadians decided that the title was all but home. In the four years since they were organized, the Vs had developed into one of the slickest teams...