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"This is getting monotonous," said Douglas Fairbanks Jr., after being robbed by a London burglar for the third time in a row. Last week, another celebrity joined in Fairbanks' protest at the wave of burglaries sweeping Britain. Humorist Sir Alan P. Herbert, onetime M.P., whose sly gibes at British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Cricket | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., recently named one of the world's best-dressed men, was asked to speak a few words to open the London tailoring exhibition. Sample of the words: "A generation drab in dress is drab in outlook." Tailors, he added, should strive for "restrained enterprise" in men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Horizons | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

The Reynolds method has been so successful that last week Sponsor Ballantine bought another 26 weeks of Foreign Intrigue. And NBC added the flattery of conscious imitation by signing a contract with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to begin work immediately on three major TV series that will be filmed in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Including the Scandinavian | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

When "Project Icicle" was first discussed, few Air Force people besides Lieut. Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher had any real enthusiasm for it; the idea of a weather station floating lazily through the Arctic Ocean on a huge island of ice seemed just too fanciful. But Joe Fletcher, then C.O. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arctic Outpost | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Douglas Fairbanks fans may enjoy seeing Cornel Wilde, as D'Artagnan Jr., spearing soldiers by the dozen and merrily rolling them down stairwells, but for most others At Swords Point will be a somewhat ludicrous spectacle. Walter Ferris and Joseph Hofman have concocted a swashbuckling sequel to Dumas' The Three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Sword's Point | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

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