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...Silver Star during World War II. At 37 he spends much of his spare time drinking milk (three quarts a day), racing quarter horses and taking potshots at his TV opposition. Says Robertson: "The adult westerns are dishonest. All that conversation is just a cheap, underhanded way of makin' up fer the lack of a good story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...midst of the sea shells and pressed plants and a vast collection of postage stamps, friends found a well-creased, patently cherished letter from Naval Intelligence thanking the little old lady from Oberlin for her role in the successful wartime invasions of the islands Tarawa, Makin and Kwajalein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: A Nice Old Lady | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...playing songbird of the '20s). Marilyn ordered gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Cast of Characters | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...A.E.F.'s youngest second lieutenant. Later he turned to newspapering ("I needed hot cakes"), wound up covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted for fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Test of Great Events | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...soft, low, fuzzy tone and a stammering swing that was as intimate as if he were whispering into a pretty ear. When he played Moonlight in Vermont, he played the vibraphone with soft-headed sticks, rolling out arpeggios as pretty and cottony as a cumulus cloud. When he played Makin' Whoopee, he played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One-Man Band | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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