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...alone in his effort. Surrounding him were the very best minds that America could produce. There was McGeorge Bundy, Superboy, who went to Yale instead of Harvard because "the Bundys had decided that after both Boston and Groton. Yale might be somewhat broadening." There was Robert McNamara, Whiz Kid, razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: The Whiz Kids Go To War | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

...guide the Penn men around Cambridge's best trick or treat neighborhoods, Harvard will assign one of its players to each of the visitors as a big brother. The Crimson checked out Halloween costumes through Jimmy Cunniff yesterday; Rod Foster picked Superboy, Tom Miller got Hopalong Cassidy, and Gary Farneti selected Mighty Joe Young...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/31/1970 | See Source »

...Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...comic books (with a monthly sale of 50 million) more acceptable to youth leaders, educators, psychiatrists and parents. Before the year is out, U.S. kids will get wholesome advice about racial tolerance, participation in community affairs and health education from such comicbook favorites as the Batman, the Green Arrow, Superboy and Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take It from Buzzy | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications, Inc., got Superman and a comic called Superboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman Adopted | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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