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...Italy made Vasari the world's first art historian. But for him, many an early Renaissance master would be unknown today, many a masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...
Credit for the win went to Vince Moravec, who pitched the first five innings before the brisk ocean breezes cooled him off. He was shifted to left field and Croft finished the mound chores...
...Company's handful of agents settled down to a lusty, hard-drinking life (according to one observer they could not sign their names before 10 in the morning or remember them after 6 in the evening), and conducted brisk export in rubber, timber, tobacco, birds' nests, camphor, and turtle eggs. They introduced certain sublimations of the head-hunting urge-tariffs, taxes, railroads, the telegraph and the telephone...
...airport next morning to say goodbye to Jimmy Byrnes and his party. "Why don't you come and visit us in Paris?" asked Senator Tom Connally. "I might do that," joshed the President, and sparked a brisk flame of false rumor...
...Manhattan, the trade sheet Variety gave Producer Hughes a brisk editorial spanking: ". . . in place of the start that was made toward easing both industry self-regulatory measures and local political censorship, films are now faced with increasing threats from blue-pencilers all along the line. That's what has . . . the industry so burned at ... Howard Hughes...