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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four-Star Playhouse (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). David Niven in Mr. Bingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Four Star Playhouse (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). David Niven in Night Ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...cameraman with a sigh: "You must be firm with Germans. They are raised differently from us and react better if one is absolutely rigorous. Only patience will get us what we want." When the German cast moved off the set, Preminger called for his English-speaking actors-David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara and Dawn Addams-and shot the same scene with less difficulty-and less patience-in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two-Toned Blau | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Ostensibly, Thornton Niven Wilder was in Europe to finish a new play and to work on a book of essays. But as usual he was finding it impossible not to be obliging. The three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) was not acting like an orthodox author. In his 55 years, he rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...imaginary friend called George: "I must go now as I am up for a fight with a boy named Saul who called me a freak and announced his intention of making a dessert for pigs of me if I did not take off my hat before him . . . Lovingly, Thornton Niven Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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