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...found one of his loveliest leading ladies and an actress of lyric grace. Chaplin's own acting now & again glimmers with the poignancy of his internationally beloved little tramp. And in one magnificent music-hall scene, in which Chaplin plays a left-handed violinist and stony-faced Buster Keaton an impossibly nearsighted pianist, the two greatest comedians of the silent screen make Limelight glow with a sure sense of pantomime-timing, as crisply clean and uncluttered a masterpiece of comic craft as the screen is ever likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...penalties, and a lofty pass set up the Dean touchdown in the second quarter, with halfback John Ferulla going off tackle for the score. Buster Carline then kicked the first of his two extra points...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Jayvess Stop Dean Academy Here, 33-14; Crimson Penalties Are No Help to Losers | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

Oldtime Comedian Buster Keaton gave photographers a chance to catch him in a traditionally morose pose before leaving on the United States for a European business trip. Two pieces of business: the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (see above), in which Keaton appears; a three-week stint with a Paris circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Mennen Co. (shaving cream and toiletries), worth an estimated $12 million. She had her own positive notions about bringing up her three sons, Mennen, Henry and Richard. "We used to wear our hair in those Dutch bobs." Hank recalls, "and we used to have to wear those Buster Brown collars. But the kids in school in the seats behind us would write all over them, and when Mother saw what they wrote we didn't wear them any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Prodigy's Progress | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Trib's heart was broken when Bob Taft lost. After Ike's nomination, the Trib said he "can't win," is a "poor creature" manipulated by "Wall Street . . . Buster Dewey the cheap trickster, and Lodge the New Dealer, who pretends to be a Republican." When the Democrats came to town, the Trib had some kind words for Senators Byrd and Russell. It fancied the idea of supporting a Democratic presidential candidate-for the first time in its 104 years-if either of the Senators was nominated. But after Stevenson was named, the Trib began to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Dilemma | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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