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James Edward Gunn, 22, is a summa cum laude graduate in math and physics at Rice University, the Southwest's toughest campus. A straight-A high school graduate, Gunn attended Rice on a four-year scholarship, won a peck of academic prizes. "I've never been able really to determine the limits of his ability,'' says one physics professor. "I've never been able to ask him an exam question that he can't give a perfect answer to.'' Except for the astronomy club, Gunn steered clear of extracurricular activities, studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...Dorchester; Warner) is a dandy illustration of the kind of acute thinking that keeps movie nonsense miles ahead of TV nonsense. When the Pharaohs of the small screen plan another shoot-'em-up, they give the tough-guy hero a routine tough-word last name, such as Gunn or Staccato. Hollywood's mentalists, on the other hand, resorted to nothing so crude in naming the hard case played by Frank Sinatra. They called him Danny Ocean. This not only permits a title too baffling to leave the mind easily; it offers a straight line for any number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman is seen again in the episode about a nightclub comic who hires Gunn to protect him from his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...Gunn after? "The thrill of the hunt," says Director Jones chivalrously. But a former neighbor has another theory: "She just wanted to keep anyone else from getting the paintings for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAGPIE'S TREASURE | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...things about her. She insisted on paying cash, and instead of allowing herself to be seen with a purchase, preferred to send a servant around to pick it up a day or two later. Though the prices of such early paintings can now go up into the thousands, Mrs. Gunn had no interest in making a profit. She kept no record of her acquisitions, but instantly consigned them to the barn, where they were soon covered with filth-splattered, torn and fouled by bats and birds. What, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAGPIE'S TREASURE | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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