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...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just the right blend of John Wayne and Herb Shriner. And Writer Tom Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Liebman Presents (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Promenade, a revue, with Tyrone Power as host, starring Judy Holliday, Herb Shriner, Janet Blair, Kay Starr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Wide, Wide World | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m.. NBC). Jazz version of Pinafore, with Perry Como, Kitty Kallen, Herb Shriner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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