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...sweep and elegance of residential show places are breathtaking-and so are the prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead plays Madame Fragrant, "the world's greatest authority on exotic perfumes," to Skelton's man from the gas company looking for a leak. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 24, 1966 | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...distressingly so. There in the Nielsen top ten last week were the old familiar faces, from NBC's Bonanza, in first place for the second year, to Gomer Pyle, The Farmer's Daughter, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Walt Disney and Bewitched. There was Red Skelton, now in his 12th year and ranked No. 6. And back into the lead surged CBS,* which is still indebted to its fired ex-president, James Aubrey, for almost all of its current programming, including six out of the top nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Let Them Eat Crow | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...most desolate places, but they have a special fascination for a special kind of fanatic: the speed demon. This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped." There was Betty Skelton, an advertising executive from Detroit, who set a ladies' land speed record of 277 m.p.h. There were the Summers brothers, Bob and Bill, who showed up with a car powered by four 600-h.p. Chrysler engines -one for each wheel. There were the Arfons brothers, Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...never driven anything faster than the family Mustang, Lee tucked her long black hair into her husband's blue crash helmet, strapped herself into Spirit's cockpit and roared off across the salt at 308.56 m.p.h. to break the ladies' record held by Betty Skelton. If anything, she took the experience more casually than Craig. "I wasn't a bit scared," she insisted. "You go so fast you don't have time to worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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