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...nation's newest speed merchant is an 18-year-old, bowlegged Texas cowboy, who guesses he looks pretty funny in a 100-yd. dash. He would rather wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down...
...cture has all the makings of the genuine article: a pretty, sharpshooting cowgirl (Loretta Young), a vicious bandit (Dan Duryea), a stagecoach holdup, posses, fast horses, plenty of shooting, a singing cowboy hero known as Melody Jones (Cooper). He doesn't sing much, and he doesn't so much sing as mumble shyly, but it is the first time in his 51 pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself...
...unaware of the fame he had attained but unready for its demands. The people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon to be released) with Burgess Meredith playing...
...Decca records, which Crosby has helped to make, put out statistics which offered a partial answer. Crosby can sing almost any type of song, and sing it well. His best-sellers are a ballad (White Christmas, 1,700,000 records), a hymn (Silent Night, 1,500,000), a cowboy song (Don't Fence Me In, 1,250,000), a romantic love song (Sunday, Monday and Always, more than one million...
...little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend to the neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial Father Norman was glad to provide them. After ten years the neighborhood came to feel that the Mission-whatever its religion-was a solid institution...