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...Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands of movie houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarzan Dives Again | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...young Coopers. (At one time five of Mrs. Mourning's seven pupils were Coopers.) Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John Sherman, neatly dressed in Buster Brown collar and knickerbockers and carrying an umbrella, off to the sixth grade at the public school. Within a week he had fought the school's two leading bullies to a dogged draw, and for some time thereafter he had to take on all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...singer, goes to the airport to meet Colleen Miller, an innocent young thing from the old home town. On the way, Shelley bumps by accident into a male passerby. "If there is any damage to the chassis, honey." he says, "I'd be glad to pay for repairs." "Buster," Shelley replies, "you couldn't even pay for the headlights." Colleen soon gets used to the way New Yorkers (in this picture) talk, but it shocks her when a fellow offers to pay her $100 for a date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...sold more records (400,000 albums) than Eddie Fisher, has the most widely admired dimples since Shirley Temple, and displays the most relentless lovableness since Little Lord Fauntleroy. His name is Wladziu Valentino Liberace (he only uses the last name), but he has also been professionally known as Buster Keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goose Pimples for All | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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