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The Prince and the Pauper: For its one-night stand on the DuPont show, CBS's 90-minute version of Mark Twain's soufflé of make-believe, abounded in virtues that spell "longrun" to Hollywood-a sumptuous production, an exciting, neatly organized story, topflight performances soundly directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

ABC's Disneyland went into its fourth season with some hard-sell facts about the future. Instead of a birthday party, Walt Disney produced an hour-long trailer for Disneyland, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

The Sketch last week assigned its married superman to bring a wife back to her husband (she promised to think about it), appointed him Daddy-for-a-Day to a ten-year-old boy whose father was in the hospital, packed him off to Paris for a daydream à deux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man in a Million | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

A long way from Sunnybrook Farm, black-haired, 29-year-old Shirley Temple, who squeezed coos and clucks from the moviegoing world as the gold-topped cinemoppet of the '30s, announced that she would end an eight-year retirement from show business, seek ohs and ahs as the narrator...

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

Barrel-chested, walrus-mustached K.I. Singh, 54, onetime Indian army clerk and practicing homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Robin Hood of the Himalayas | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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