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Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier," whose ballad, television series, and coonskin caps have made him the new idol of America's children, was actually a vain political stooge in real life, two College professors agreed yesterday...
...King of the Wild Frontier's real story, according to Miller and Schlesinger, is different from the words of the ballad and the Times. Davy, it seems, was an ordinary soldier in Tennessee when the Whig Party, defeated by President Jackson, decided that it, too, needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people...
When it comes to picking up-and dropping-a fast buck, few can match Chicago's Ralph E. Stolkin, 36. By using the mails and punchboards to peddle such merchandise as ballpoint pens, coonskin caps and cheap radios, Stolkin ran a $15,000 loan into a $3,400,000 fortune. After the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on him for "deceptive sales practices" and U.S. postal authorities warned him against conducting a lottery by mail, Punchboard King Stolkin headed for Hollywood. He took charge of a five-man syndicate that bought RKO from Howard Hughes and named himself president...
...accused Kefauver of befriending left-wing Northerners, supporting the Supreme Court segregation decision, and, worst of all, being an "internationalist." Unlike his 1948 coonskin-cap barnstorm ing, Kefauver's campaign was dignified; he soft-pedaled his internationalist and gang-busting lines, stressing what he had done for Tennessee. By campaign's end there was evidence that Pat Sutton had talked too much. During one talkathon, he had labeled a friend of Kefauver as a "known Communist." Later he apologized, but that did not stop Kefauver's friend from hitting him with a $1,500,000 slander suit...
...whole thing steps off on the wrong trail when Howard Keel, resplendent in Mountie uniform, comes down out of the Canadian Rockies to bring Rose Marie back to civilization. Spotting Ann Blyth in a canoe and coonskin cap, he mistakes her for a boy, but then covers up with a good natured, "Hey, boy, you're a girl, heh, heh." Thereafter Keel keeps turning up, in best Mountic tradition, in the place where Rose Marie has gone, understandably, to get away from...