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...Smiley (London Films; 20th Century-Fox), made in Australia, describes the adventures of an Australian Tom Sawyer named Smiley Greevins (Colin Petersen), with more backblocks yabber than you'll hear from a gum tree full of galahs. Wants a bike, that joey, and you can bet the creeping bent he'll bottom on the gold. He gives up his lollies and embarks on a course of hard yacker for the local John, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). He even swings a government stroke or two for the amen-snorter (Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...dead bird for that no-hope shicer (John McCullum) who keeps the local rubbedy, where the cow-cockies and swaggies get shickered up on Saturday night. He's chronic, that man, a bit of a bludger, and maybe even a tea leaf. He not only smoodges Smiley into some mauldy business with the abos, but before you know it, he's up to putty with the new schoolteacher (Jocelyn Hernfield)-now there's a basket of oranges!-whom he would obviously like to blackbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Conversation (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Why I Love My Job, discussed by New York City Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner, Dr. Smiley Blanton, Clifton Fadiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...when a reporter managed to get him on the phone, and ask what his aims were in Florida, Davis snapped: "Making money. What else? Now go away and let me get on with it." One of the few reporters to interview him is the Miami Herald's Nixon Smiley, who came away goggle-eyed. "Arthur Vining Davis," he wrote, "is a large body of money surrounded by Dade County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Life Begins at 88 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...will roll." The audience loves it. Ed continues: "Everybody in the audience is honor bound to be happy. So look happy!" They do. "In 30 seconds, Art Hannes is going to introduce me and he will be absolutely astonished that I showed up. They didn't think old Smiley would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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