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...Fair Lady) Andrews. Ford Star Jubilee will hire Cole Porter. Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae. Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Gray. George Sanders. Louis Armstrong to salute Composer Porter's 40 years of songwriting. Ford will also adapt Sidney Kingsley's Men in White and showcase MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary of Buffoon Danny Kaye's 32,000-mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: And Away We Go | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...offering a vulgar substitute for real entertainment? A few winning contestants have been dogged by their fame and fortune into worthwhile pursuits, or received lifetime annuities in odd ways. One giveaway winner now has his own local quiz program, another is being pressured to run for Congress. Stock Market Wizard Leonard Ross, II, who won $100,000 on The Big Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows, is putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Money | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: M-G-M Tries TV | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Africa's Middle Congo a kani is a wizard, and along the banks of the muddy Alima River a kani's orders are not taken lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Kani | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...foolishness of her clown-friends, and in not displaying much sympathy she does this only to a limited extent. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, as played by John Bernard, Fred Morehouse, and John Fenn, have a lot more fun and are very successful. Marc Brugnoni's excellent Wizard has a winsomeness and honesty which is very appealing. He, Fenn, and Anne Adams, in the dubious role of the Good Witch, turn in the happiest performances in pleasant, sprightly show...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Wizard of Oz | 3/28/1956 | See Source »

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