TV Guide (September 11, 1954)

Page scan 00067 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
September 11, 1954
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Chicago (September 11, 1954)
Leaf #:
00067
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 27, 2022
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AT SEVEN, RUSTY’S A QUIZ KID WHO BELIEVES IN SANTA CLAUS On a certain morning in April, 1953, a 6-year-old youngster named Rusty Hamer was told he had been selected to play the part of Danny Thomas’ son in a new TV film series, Make Room for Daddy. That same afternoon, Mrs. Arthur W. Hamer, Rusty’s moth¬ er, was told that her husband, ill of cancer, had only a few months to live. Late in December, Arthur Hamer died. Rusty spent that day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Danny Thomas. When his mother tried to break the news to him gently, Rusty said: “Mom, you’re trying to tell me that Daddy’s dead, aren’t you? Well, don’t you worry. We’ll take care of you.” Rusty Hamer, now 7, is something of a prodigy without ever having meant to be. His parents had always been interested in little theater groups, both back in Tenafly, N.J., where Rusty and his brothers, Walter, 16, and John, 9, were born, and in Santa 20