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...from comparison with Port Said, the old folks on the front steps tell the tale of a pretty little boy with rosy cheeks and light brown ringlets who went skipping along the sidewalk in one of the nation's hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then they opened their mouths to laugh, but no sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him into a sensational show-business success. He has 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 »

Married. Freddie Bartholomew, 32, onetime Hollywood child star (Little Lord Fauntleroy) turned TV director; and Aileen Paul, 32, producer of TV commercials; both for the second time; in Yonkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...spotlight his name is Mister Mistin, Jr., and he is a little boy of five-going-on-six. As the star of the circus he is the envy of all who ever gummed spun sugar. His blond hair is long and in curls, and his Lord Fauntleroy suit shows no wrinkles. But who would dare call the confidante of lion tamers a sissy...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Cabbages & Kings | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Back from oblivion last week came Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," whose exploits in aeronautics kept Manhattan city editors in copy during the years before World War II. Colonel Julian came to public view, with a riffling of $1,000 bills, as he boarded an airliner to leave Guatemalan City, fared from his latest position as arms buyer for the Guatemalan government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Black Eagle Flies Again | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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