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Chances are, if you grew up in the mid-1950s, you either owned an official Davy Crockett coonskin cap or had the lyrics of the television show's theme song committed to memory: "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee/ Greenest state in the land of the free ... Davy, Davy Crockett/ King of the wild frontier." Under the iconic cap--just one of the show's many merchandising tie-ins--stood Fess Parker, who died on March 18 at 85. The 6-ft. 6-in. Texas-born actor fit the rugged American frontiersman mold so well in the five Crockett episodes...
...taken heat for having tabloid guests on your show. How do you feel about that? Dirk Crockett OKLAHOMA CITY...
...WALTER BUDZYN, 47, white former police officers; for their second-degree murder convictions in the beating death of black motorist Malice Green; in Detroit. Green died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they be imprisoned out of state...
...Georgia's move as a joke. Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke, whose Chattanooga district would become part of Georgia under the other state's plan, proposed a winner-take-all wrestling match or football game to settle the matter; Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield sent an aide dressed as Davy Crockett to deliver a truckload of water to Georgia legislators...
They're turning 62 this month, the first of the baby boomers are. Adorable, aren't they, as they hum along to the Beach Boys on their iPods and dream of Davy Crockett coonskin caps? In February the 100,000 or so of these January 1946 babies who opted for early retirement will get their first Social Security checks (averaging between $900 and $1,000 a month), marking the beginning of a demographic wave that will boost the program's rolls from 50 million to 80 million over the next two decades. Not so adorable...