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...When owl-eyed Phil Silvers scored his surprising Trendex rating victory over Milton Berle, he was the first entertainer to accomplish the feat in all Berle's years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Army Game | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Night Plight. In Ventura, Calif., haled into court for driving without lights, Mrs. Florence Sandberg was allowed a month's time to choose between a fine or a jail term when the judge refused to accept her defense: "I can see like an owl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...young ones in her nest, against the owl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAS MACDUFF A HEN? | 10/5/1955 | See Source »

...years, earned him an annual profit in six figures. After the war, when Americans were hungry for domestic goods, he produced Stop the Music, the most lavish of the giveaway shows (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.). In between, he headed up the New York office of the wartime OWL As a personality, Cowan is a paradox: a soft-spoken huckster with a Ph.B., who is more apt to recount his failures than his successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Moderation | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock Dispenser | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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