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...modern art, his quarrels and correspondence (frequently unprintable), his dung-heap humor and mercurial temper had made him a legend. The son of a poverty-stricken Civil War veteran, he grew up in the verminous, squatter slums of Philadelphia, with a burning determination to get rich, and then to thumb his nose at the world. He did just that-and quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ogre of Merlon | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Married. Russ Tamblyn, 25, film actor recently in torn thumb] and Elizabeth Kempton, 24, British show girl; he for the second time ("I think everyone should get married young and get divorced young''), she for the first; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Parker, never talks to the press unless the Colonel nods, is content to look after the hips while the man he calls Admiral looks after the Presley legend. Meanwhile, a legend is growing around Parker himself that might very well reduce P. T. Barnum to the size of Tom Thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRESARIOS: The Man Who Sold Parsley | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...fans puts it, "looks like anonymity with 'air on." In recent years he has established himself as one of BBC's top radio and television comics. Last year U.S. moviegoers became vaguely aware of him as a hilarious assistant heavy in torn thumb (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959) and as three other people in a farce called The Mouse That Roared (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week, as two of his latest pictures were released simultaneously in the U.S., Sellers stood suddenly revealed as a major comic imagination, easily the most brilliant ironic actor the British have produced since Alec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sellers Market | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...Place, The Gazebo, Sink the Bismarck) at the rate of $1 for a two-hour show every evening for the family (the cost of one ticket to a downtown movie). Children can chip in nickels and dimes toward the cost of their favorite shows, buy the likes of Tom Thumb and Gulliver's Travels for a quarter on Sunday afternoons. Father is staying home for sports events he cannot tune in free, and during the day Telemeter broadcasts music free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Future: FeeVee | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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