People, Jun. 11, 1956

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In Los Angeles, Actor George Reeves, better known to millions of televiewing kiddies as Superman ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!!"), slapped a half-million-dollar suit on the O'Sullivan Building Materials Co. Reason : Superman Reeves, immovably safety-belted in his sports car, was irresistibly moved by an O'Sullivan truck last March, now claims he banged up his left side and arm so badly that his indestructibility was...

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