Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his proud fellow citizens like to think of him as their own Mike Hammer, Milan's Tommaso Ponzi, 37, really does not quite meet TV specifications for a private eye. Big Tom weighs 270 lbs., is a happily married homebody (three children) who has no time for slinky blondes. But otherwise, Tom is up to fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve...
Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...
...Florida jaunt, coach Bill McCurdy uncovered some outstanding hidden talent, and the most encouraging surprise of all was probably sophomore Stan Doten. Even while hindered by inexperience and a severe sunburn, Doten gained an amazing amount of polish in the hammer throw, finally topping his more experienced teammates with an excellent 166 ft. heave...
Field events may be the team's strong point. Doten and Jim Doty in the hammer, Abbot and Doty in the shot, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, and Blodgett in the pole vault lead a strong group that should produce a few sweeps before the season is over...
Nobody loves Hammer more than a Windsor butcher who has grown fat on selling the studio his offal: lamb tongues, entrails, eyeballs. Such "authentic art" is a priceless asset to Hammer, which also fills theater lobbies with promotional displays of headless bodies floating in tanks...