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...could say "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," there was Ernie wearing a set of tails like the headwaiter at Romanoff's, up there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked it too. But then everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Marty in Hollywood | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...just whipped Soviet Decathlon Hero Vasily Kuznetsov, but the husky U.S. Negro got a brotherly buss from the loser and a tremendous roar of approval from the 30,000 fans, as he mounted the winner's platform in Moscow's Lenin Stadium and smilingly held a bouquet of flowers aloft in triumph. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 22, of Kingsburg, Calif, had treated appreciative Muscovites to one of the greatest individual performances in track and field history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moscow's Hero | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS (rhymes with raw buss) was born 47 years ago in a rough-cut plank cabin near Greasy Creek, so far back in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas that the first paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HILLBILLY, SLIGHTLY SOPHISTICATED | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Minh, the goateed scholar and activist who is President of Communist North Viet Nam, last week smooched in comradely fashion with Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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