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Recollections at 30 (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A 1939 salute to Britain's royal family, with Hostess Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, Basil Rathbone, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Greer Garson, George M. Cohan, Leslie Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo-Arthur Whetsel on trumpet, Otto Hardwick on bass and alto, Sonny Greer on drums and Elmer Snowden on banjo-but the real break came in 1927. "You know, I'm lucky," says Duke. "I'm lucky because I like pretty music-some people don't-and can write it down. And I was lucky when we auditioned for the Cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mood Indigo & Beyond | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...United Artists) confirms the Hollywood truism that one scrappy Yank is more than a match for three brutal Nazis. Richard Widmark, an ex-war correspondent, big-game hunter and bestselling novelist, is tracked down in Mexico by Girl Reporter Jane Greer, whose assignment is to discover why he has stopped writing. Soon Widmark sobs out the terrible truth (while he was shooting lions in Africa, his wife and best friend were making beautiful music together). Jane is so moved that she starts back for Manhattan without her story. Aloft in Widmark's personal plane, the two of them crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...special relays, Art Mayo, Norm Bruck, Ed Carter, and either Fred Smith, Jim Greer, or Hank Wente will run the 440. Robertson, Bruck, Carter, and either Dick Norris or Bill Morris will race in the sprint medley relay...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

Cohen will anchor the shuttle hurdle team to Carter, Art Martin, and Robertson. McCurdy will probably enter his top mile relay of Robertson Jim Cairns or Al Wills, French Anderson, and anchorman Dick Wharton. Morris, Williams, Reider, and Wilson will form the two-mil relay and Mayo, Carter, Greer, and Bruck will...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

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