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...four philandering executives, and though he gets awfully tired of sitting in the park all evening, keymanship has its compensations. The hero's superiors write glowing reports on his work, and the reports soon come to the attention of the big boss (Fred MacMurray) himself. "Baxter," he confides to the hero, "as far as I'm concerned, you're executive material"-he wants the key too. Before long the hero is an assistant to the boss. Sud denly he discovers that he has outsmarted himself: the girl (Shirley MacLaine) that the boss takes to his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Whittier. "I remember her well," says Dr. Frank Baxter, English professor, Shakespearean specialist and latter-day TV raconteur. "She was a quiet girl, and pretty. And it always used to disturb me how tired her face was in repose. There seemed to have been plenty of reason for it. As I recall it, if you went into the cafeteria, there was Pat Ryan at the serving counter. An hour later, if you went to the library, there was Pat Ryan, checking out books. And if you came back to the campus that evening, there was Pat Ryan working on some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Silent Partner | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Married. Anne Baxter, 36, cinemactress (The Ten Commandments); and Randolph Gait, 30, cattle rancher; she for the second time (No. 1: Cinemactor John Hodiak), he for the first; in Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Fresh Start. In Charlotte, N.C., Herbert H. Baxter, a city councilman for 14 years and mayor for six, mulled over his defeat in a municipal election for six months, finally enrolled in a Chamber of Commerce course called "Practical Politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...case for the defense was stronger, and just as reminiscent of TV's Sergeant Bilko and his Fort Baxter friends. A mess sergeant from another company earnestly testified that Pfc. God's peelings were quite normal, considering that the accused had had only a knife to work with instead of a hand potato-peeler. Moreover, defense counsel (an officer picked for the job) was able to prove that Pfc. God's peelings (saved as evidence by the company commander) weighed less than those carved by his own mess sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from God | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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