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...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, George Sanders, Fred Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Joan Fontaine, Fred Allen, Josephine Baker, Gracie Fields, George Sanders, William Gargan, Fernand Gravet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Tireless and imaginative. Stein has won the backing of the American Legion (he is a World War I veteran) and of such stage friends as Tallulah Bankhead, a longtime subscriber and general booster. Thanks largely to Stein and the Star, patients at Carville have established their right to vote (a technicality of state law once disfranchised them); their precinct is usually the first in the state to report. They have won the right to have visitors, a month's leave a year when their disease is quiescent. Stein will not rest until state and federal laws recognize that, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crusade in Carville | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Tallulah swept in, dressed in a sleek black dress, and called for a champagne cocktail. When it appeared, she hopped upon the nearest chair, poured the champagne into her black suede shoe (size four) and drank a toast. Shouted Tallulah: "Winston Churchill is my god, and I'm just mad about England. I mean Britain. I just love you all like crazy." Then she hopped down, tapped the nearest waiter, kissed him four times and said, "Darling, bring me a drink." As other waiters scurried to be of service, she cautioned the cameramen: "Don't shoot me grinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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