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Since he first started reading Shakespeare on TV, Professor Frank Baxter of the University of Southern California (TIME, April 11) has won the dubious title of "The Liberace of the Library...
...Liberace, according to Baxter, is no substitute for the old-fashioned liberal arts. In This Week magazine, Baxter bluntly warns the nation: turn off that TV set and "wake up and read...
Married. Lorraine Manville, sixtyish, who split a $20-million asbestos fortune with her brother, much-married Tommy Manville: and Charles Baxter, 31, TV actor; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
DeMille likes to do things with an even more lavish hand. The Ten Commandments, with Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, some 20,000 extras and a 300,000-gallon tank filled with water to play the Red Sea, is budgeted at $8,000,000. But the film version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play...
...seems that Actress Baxter, a blues belter who is apt to wear as many as several sequins at once, has gone from bed to worse: murder. The hero tries to save her soul, but he keeps hankering after her body. At one point, they stash away in an attic. As she rubs against him, he hesitates, looking less like St. Anthony before the Devil than an aging shortstop in confrontation with an alluring calorie, and is lost when the sound track weighs in with the kind of unhealthy music that passes censorship but might better be evaluated by a Wassermann...