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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frances Langford Presents (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifteen years after she started flying around the world as the singing attraction in the Bob Hope troupe, Langford gets a TV "special" all to herself; Hope will be on hand, and so will Hugh O'Brian, Julie London, Edgar Bergen, George Sanders and Jerry Colonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Divorced. Wanda Hendrix, 30, sometime movie starlet (Miss Tatlock's Millions, Prince of Foxes); by James Langford Stack Jr., 42, rich Nevada sport; after four years of marriage; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Mind Cure. In Atlanta, taking a tolerant view of the bigamy charge against Jackson L. Langford, 96, the solicitor general said that he probably got mixed up through "just being absent-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...this excellent new biography Author Langford, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, traces Porter's roller-coaster life and attempts to explain the contradictions of his personality. He was born in Greensboro, N.C., a year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Days of the Caliph | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...every one was a pleasure." When he died in a Cambridge nursing home last week (by then, Sam figured he was 76), the Tar Baby's pockets were as empty as ever, and his long record was almost empty of titles. But men who had seen Sam Langford fight still ranked him right up with the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tar Baby | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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