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...difference between reactions to the Kennedy legend and the Johnson performance is even more dramatic abroad than at home. Johnson is regularly described by foreign left-wingers as a "man of blood" or a "cowboy murderer" or a "Texas assassin," who has "turned Viet Nam into a slaughterhouse." A middle-reading Athens journalist accuses Johnson of "blatant Goldwaterism." When it is pointed out that, had he lived, Kennedy would have had to make many of the same moves as Johnson, most foreign critics insist that he would have handled them differently, with more finesse. They concede that Johnson is brilliant...
Died. Private First Class John Da vid Rogers, 18, adopted son of Singing Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and third of their nine children to die; of asphyxiation due to choking, after celebrating his promotion to pfc; in Gelnhausen, Germany...
...SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). "The Day Smart Turned Chicken" implausibly involves a dying cowboy and a plot to assassinate an ambassador...
...golden days of the silver screen, the rest of the world had it pretty well figured out that the U.S. was cowboy-and-Indian country except for a patch of gang turf called Chicago, and that the populace was all Tom Mixes, Bogarts and Harlows. Now the world knows better: it realizes that the U.S. is, in fact, a vast Ponderosa peopled by dashing doctors and defense counsels and hard-nosed Combatants, all of whom love a dunderhead named Lucy. At a time when there are 1,400 times as many television sets (173 million) as movie houses on earth...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...