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Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final...
...Formosa's 2,000,000 Chinese Nationalists has been nourished by the hope that one day they will return to their homeland only 90 miles away across the Formosa Strait. To achieve this goal, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has kept his powerful army and air force in tiptop shape, and devoured intelligence reports from the mainland. Last week, in a speech celebrating Youth Day, in bustling, prosperous Taipei, he said: "The situation both at home and abroad is such that we can no longer passively wait and see if something will happen. The holy expedition from Formosa to save...
...combining innovation with craftsmanship (TIME cover, May 18, 1959). As one of the chief instigators, and as the prime beneficiary of the U.S. boating boom, Chris-Craft has averaged 14% growth every year since 1946. But by the late 19505. Chris-Craft, though still on top was not in tiptop shape. Run almost singlehanded by Chairman Harsen Smith with occasional advice from 53 other Smiths, the family-owned corporation was in visible -danger of losing its position as the company that made the right moves first. Says one top Chris-Craft executive: "We had gotten so we didn...
...commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger him with too many conferences. As an artist-architect, he controls the design to the smallest detail. As a man, he stays in tiptop shape, swimming in the icy Finnish lakes in summer, going cross-country on skis during the winter...
...broad jump, Indiana's Greg Bell confessed that he was not in tiptop condition: "I'll have to do it on the first jump." That he did. Hitting the mark at a sprinter's clip. Bell jackknifed forward and landed at 26 ft. 7 in., equaling his best distance-a jump that stands second only to Jesse Owens' 1935 record of 26 ft. 8¼ in. The pressure on Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan was so intense that he fouled repeatedly, had to settle for 25 ft. 9¼ in. and second place...