Word: sparkplugs
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...Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shemara. In the warm Mediterranean darkness, the surf pounded restlessly against the rocky Riviera coast. and the Riviera's storied second-story...
...pitching staff is dilute behind Spahn, Burdette, and Buhl, while the relief core exists only in the capable imagination of Charlie Dresson. The Braves still have Hank Aaron and Eddie Matthews, but Joe Adoock and Del Crandall have shown their age in Bradenton this spring, and the old sparkplug, shortstop Johnny Logan has been relegated to second string behind Roy McMillan. Frank Bolling and Billy Martin will solve the perennial second base problem between them, but the resultant absence of Bill Bruton (traded for Bolling), and the disability of Wes Covington have decimated an outfield that once was the best...
...third man who has hit double figures in both games is the captain, Sid Davis, from Clinton, Tenn. Davis is the sparkplug of the team--running the offense from his guard post, dribbling the opposition crazy, and scoring on drives and jump shots...
...proudest acquisitions is a painting by Ryder, the great est romantic of them all - a self-portrait painted about the age of 43. Parts of his collection have been shown in 15 countries, and Fleischman himself generally goes along to lecture. In his native Detroit, he is a sparkplug of Archives of American Art, an institution set up to gather artists' letters, recorded inter views and other research material. "Outside our immediate family," Fleischman says, with a fond glance at his wife, "art is the most important thing in our lives...
...America, Africa, the Middle East, and TIME'S domestic bureaus, they added up to a year in which free-enterprise capitalism was on the march throughout the world-a thrusting, competitive capitalism that poses challenging questions for the U.S. in the 19603. As France's Jean Monnet, sparkplug of European economic unification, said near the end of 1959: "There is now a new force in world economic relations. The U.S. helped the free world, and the free world has recovered economically. Now we must all work together to make sure that economic expansion continues...