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Last week both NBC and CBS got ready for more action on the Latin-American front. Back from Latin America with a report on radio conditions was NBC Short-Wave Program Director Guy Hickok; preparing to leave on an inspection tour this week was a trio of CBS bigwigs-President William S. Paley, News Chief Paul White, and the recently appointed Director of Latin-American Relations, Edmund Chester, former head of A. P.'s Latin-American Division...
...year by year the menswear trade doggedly fights to infect its customers with the same virus of fashion and change prevalent among women. Rare are their successes. Last week it looked, however, as though they had succeeded with cuff links. Hickok Manufacturing Co. (men's accessories) announced triumphantly: "American men have bought more cuff links in the last four months than they bought in the previous four years." Other cufflink makers told the same story: Swank Products Inc. that it was selling ten times as many cuff links as it was a year ago; Krementz & Co. that its cufflink...
...Wild Bill" Hickok (Gary Cooper), famed scout, is detailed by General Custer to go after Yellow Hand (Paul Harvey), a Cheyenne chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail...
...rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally he does...
...Abilene Hardin tangled with Hickok, then a city marshal. Although Thomas Ripley writes with frank partisanship, unearths terrible scandals in Hickok's career, unbiased readers may feel that the famed gunman nevertheless emerges as an individual of great gravity and self-control. Although Hardin's prejudices were inflamed when he heard that Yankee "Wild Bill" killed only Southerners, they got along well until Hardin once made too much noise while bowling and "Wild Bill" arrested him. Getting the drop on the marshal, Hardin cursed him as one who would shoot a boy in the back. Waiting...