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Born. To Guy Madison (real name: Robert Moseley), 33, golden-haired idol of TV and radio ("Wild Bill Hickok"), and sometime cinemactor (The Command), and TV Actress Sheila Connolly, 23: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London; the movie made her a household heroine to the nation. Hollywood also introduced her to Movie Idol John Gilbert, a passionate love affair, and the beginning of discontent with her husband and with her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deeper than Greasepaint | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier," whose ballad, television series, and coonskin caps have made him the new idol of America's children, was actually a vain political stooge in real life, two College professors agreed yesterday...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Davy Crockett a Stooge, Professors Claim | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

Just why this is so presents no problems, as the Big Men on any Louisiana campus will reveal. Huey Long is their man, an Idol of the idols. He awed the people, and the B.M.O.C. have taken the clue...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: B.M.O.C.'s: A Case Study | 4/14/1955 | See Source »

...pushups, religiously devotes 15 minutes a day to the Five-Foot Shelf of Harvard Classics, and methodically sprinkles wheat germ in his orange juice. On their honeymoon, he and Sylvia scarcely sit down to a cozy little dinner when he drags her table-hopping to meet a business idol of his, stifling Sylvia's protests with the reminder that it never hurts, as Willis always puts it, to "sweeten a contact." As he zooms along to corporate heights, Willis Wayde seems like the prototype for David Riesman's "other-directed" personality. He assiduously collects antiques, not because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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