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...part-time work as peanut vendors, sightseeing guides, sales clerks, doormen and soda jerks. Miller differs from the rest mainly in the choice of his principal sideline, which puts him on TV screens nearly as much as his acting in such shows as Stop the Music and Lux Video Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Full Life | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...courage of ordinary people, and consequently the mixed feelings with which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes. The subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors and other machinery": "THEY SAW wheels, gears and gasoline that mystified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asia Sees Only Luxuries of West | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). All About Eve, with Bette Davis, Ann Baxter, Gary Merrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 1, 1951 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Meade Lux Lewis and the late Albert Ammons who made boogie famous, while their teacher Jimmy continued to live in a dark, narrow tenement flat, virtually unknown. In baseball season, he worked as assistant groundskeeper at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. In his last years, he scraped along mostly on tiny record royalties, a few concerts and club dates. He did not mind fame passing him by. All he wanted, he told "Mama"-his wife Estella-was a Dixieland band to play at his funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam for Jimmy | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Lux Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Hollywood's Wendell Corey in Forever Walking Free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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