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...roared out of his cave to do a comic song-and-dance at a Multiple Sclerosis Society benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel by wearing puce powder-blue tights? Gleeps! Henry decided to stay out of the women's club show. From now on he'll stick close to his cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...King Driggs, 79, onetime barnstorming balladeer who helped his daughters gain fame in the 1940s as the King Sisters vocal trio, then last summer out-trouped the Trapps by massing his wife, six daughters and two sons, their seven husbands and wives, and 23 of his grandchildren to form ABC-TV's singing King Family (theme song: Love in the Home); of a stroke; in Burbank, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...last week's championship, a crowd of 700 jammed the Windsor Ballroom, and ABC-TV was on hand to catch every clicking carom. The prize money was $13,000. Nobody was taking it lightly, least of all an ex-butcher from Minersville, Pa., named Joe Balsis. "My wife and kids have a nasty habit," said Balsis, 42. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billiards: Rhymes with Cool | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Born. To Dick Clark, 35, Pied Piper (at $1,000,000 a year) to the country's rock 'n' rollers, since 1956 M.C. of ABC-TV's American Bandstand; and Loretta Clark, 28, onetime Manhattan secretary: their second child, first daughter; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Competition Even on the dullest day of the mid summer doldrums, the Dallas morning News would not be expected to report the fact that its evening competitor, the Times-Herald, planned to cover basketball games next winter. But that was exactly what the Dallas News did, in June, for ABC-TV. SPORTS COVERAGE EXPANDED, announced the News, over a story reporting ABC's plans to televise 16 basketball games come January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Being Kind to the Competition | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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