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...daytime radio, including soap operas, has scarcely felt a tremor from the Cott bomb. Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Blockbuster | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...against children; we just like to do adult things"), Bosustow does training films for the armed forces, industrial films for such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen of Troy, as well as Gilbert & Sullivan operettas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 7 Minutes With a Madman | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...consists chiefly of Hammerstein complaining that he cannot think of any words, and Rodgers saying soothingly, "It will come, Oscar, it will come"; Joshua (South Pacific) Logan and John (The King and I) Van Druten directing, and looking as nervous as Men of Distinction who have misplaced their highballs; Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer having a chat about the merits of triple-decker sandwiches (Rex is for, Lilli against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...London, America's top-ranking tennis player, 39-year-old Gardnar Mulloy, angrily hurled his racket at a linesman and stormed off the Queens Club court after he was beaten, 6-8, 7-5, 8-6, by Australian Rex Hartwig, an unseeded player, in the London tennis tournament. Fumed Mulloy: "I should have won. I was robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...career are the bleached bones of Norwegian free enterprise, starting with antimonopoly laws in the '30s, through price-control laws in 1940: the more severe postwar emergency controls in 1947 (popularly called "Lex Thagaard"), and ending in this week's law. Today Norwegians call him "Rex Thagaard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Voting Away Freedom | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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