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Francis X. Bushman was a national idol in the silent picture days. So long as audiences could admire him from a distance, he was a box office-hit. But when the talkies made a movie actor's charm partly vocal, Bushman's popularity vanished...
General Eisenhower is another Bushman according to Senator Taft's campaign managers. They think that his popularity will wane as soon as he speaks out on issues. To catalyze the process, they have conjured up twenty-one "Questions for Ike." They hope that these queries, placed on petitions above a long list of signatures, will loosen the General's tongue...
...profit by silence, but there is something inherently fearsome about voters blindly supporting a man, neither knowing nor caring where he stands. Moreover, it is hard to see how a Bushman-like silence will really help him in the scramble for delegates. His strength is in the Liberal Republican wing. To gain delegates, he must woo more conservative Republicans, who distrust him for his honeymoon with the Administration foreign policy. Many believe--and no Ike supporter has denied--that his domestic philosophy would ring pleasantly in the ears of conservatives...
...Murray Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). A salute to the movie industry. Guests: Ruby Keeler, Buster Keaton, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, John Wayne, Harold Lloyd, Francis X. Bushman...
...Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo, a group of old friends, including Zoo Director Marlin Perkins, gathered in the monkey house to view the taxidermists' re-creation of the late great gorilla, Bushman. After a cafeteria luncheon with chocolate-ice cream gorillas for dessert, the crowd watched old movies of Bushman and listened to speeches. Then a keeper walked in with the hero's heir-apparent: four-year-old Sinbad, rigged out in a red & white striped jersey and brown corduroy trousers. Sinbad was finally coaxed to pull the cord parting the curtains which covered the mounted Bushman...