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...convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Mahatma | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...Smartest-looking stuff in the world," said Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. "It improves the look of a girl's skin, raises the eye high." Since it is as impermeable as rubber, it can raise the temperature rather high too, and during the coming months the wet look may spread from many a girl's coat to her countenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Wet Look | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...twisted values of what is smart and what is dumb. "I've been a con, as smart and tough as they come," he tells the prisoners, "but I'm not a wise guy any more. All the wise guys I know are in here-the smartest ones of all didn't even come to the show, they're in the hole. They call guys like me square Johns, dummies. Yeah. All us square Johns are on the outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Convictions of an Ex-Con | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...that the black marlin is the biggest game fish around; some sharks grow bigger. The black is just the fastest, strongest, smartest and meanest-and big enough too. The record for rod and reel is 1,560 Ibs., and even the babies-meaning 200 Ibs. or so-have bills like baseball bats. Golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: All Out for Banzai! | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...missed if all of this is skipped. There is no lasting culinary memory to be taken from the fair, as there was in 1939 when the Pavilion's Henri Soulé made his U.S. debut at the French pavilion. Moreover, great Curnonskian meals absorb too much time. The smartest way to eat is to bring your own sandwiches or buy a quick one in a place like Liebmann Breweries' oldtime tavern, where a fast beer and a ham on rye cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: The World of Already | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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