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Puerto Rico-once a U.S. poorhouse in the Caribbean and lately a busy island workshop-is turning into a chic winter resort. Next week. 20 miles from downtown San Juan, Laurance Rockefeller's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach will open its doors, outclassing the smartest resorts of Jamaica. Antigua and Barbados...
THREE years ago TIME published a cover story on New York City's old and colorful political machine, Tammany Hall, in which Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio appeared as one of the smartest political pros in the city's history. TIME's evaluation of De Sapio in that story (TIME, Aug. 22, 1955) got considerable documentation last week at the New York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly...
...sons, four of whom work for his companies. Son George, 34, a vice president of Tidewater, recently flew to Paris to see his father, with whom he has spent only six weeks since the first year of his life. He was understandably anxious. Said he: "Mr. Getty is the smartest businessman I know. Coming to see him is like a visit to Mount Olympus." Getty's youngest son, Timothy Christopher, 12, who is recovering from a series of eye operations, lives at the Pierre with his mother, Louise Lynch Getty; Getty talks with him by telephone...
...Speed, intuition, excitement: that is my method of creation." Thus natty George Mathieu. 36, French "action painter," describes the process behind the globular, pyrotechnic displays that have earned him a reputation as one of the zaniest, smartest abstractionists in Paris...
Football's College All-Stars bounced into Chicago's Soldier Field last week with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...