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...million cigarette (Camels) fortune. Eight months later, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. With a splash of tabloid headlines, Libby and Reynolds' male secretary were indicted for murder, then freed for lack of evidence. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds was born. He inherited $7,000,000 (Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Favorite in Manhattan | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...with parents (Regis Toomey and Claire Carleton), a sweetheart three inches taller than he is (Carla Balenda) and a shady dramatic coach (Alan Mowbray). Fast-moving and full of bounce, the Mickey Rooney Show is aimed at the large audience that already likes Our Miss Brooks, I Married Joan, Topper and My Little Margie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...profit and are of an educational nature. At the present time, undergraduate exhibitors violate both regulations. Although films are not so lucrative this year as in the past, profit is still the only reason that groups like the Liberal Union or the U.N. Council show pictures. And movies like Topper and Arsenic and Old Lace can hardly be considered educational...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Moguls . . . Home Grown | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

...went through his now-famous tumbling approach routine that lifts him up and over a high-jump bar higher than the world record. He first cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly challenged anyone to prove that his star pupil did not use a one-footed take-off as required by high-jumping rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscular Missionaries | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Topper (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A new comedy series with Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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