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...regular country-music Segovia. His casual, clean-cut virtuosity on the "flattop" (nonelectric) guitar is little less than awesome as he drives through such standards as Black Mountain Rag and Nashville Blues. His voice curls reedily and winsomely around Matty Groves, reminding some of the young Burl Ives. The only difference: Watson sings on pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Champion Country Picker | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

Tors, whose grey spade beard gives him the look of a dietetic Burl Ives, is known as the "witch doctor" among his friends and as a photographic innovator throughout the movie industry. His stunning underwater camera work for Thunderball won an Oscar last year. And in the past four years he has built his own company's gross from $750,000 to $12 million. About the only mishap Tors has suffered occurred after he had filmed Namu, the Killer Whale. He had made friends with the five-ton mammal by spending all-night vigils floating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: King of the Beasties | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...group of engineers, scientists and charlatans, headed by P. T. Barnum (Burl Ives), decides to shoot the moon with a rocket ship to be sent up by German Genius Gert Frobe. The pilot: blond, bland Troy Donahue, ideal candidate for the world's first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Loony & Lunar | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Johnny Marks's music and Burl Ives's narration of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer are reason enough for this special to become an annual celebration. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Burl Ives is the off-camera voice of a snowman who sings and narrates Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an animated Christmas story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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