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...John E. Osborne-who later became governor of the state-sawed off the top of Big Nose George's skull as a present for a girl medical student and then skinned him, tanned the hide and made a medicine case and a pair of shoes from the leather. The shoes are still on display at the Rawlins National Bank...
...Fire. But it was the children who put the golden fence posts in Hoppy's old corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong Cassidy endorsements...
...rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands who saw him pass didn't recognize the kid who'd just won the Derby...
...Dorothy Mortensen, a Jacksonville, Fla. drama student. They will be married, he announced proudly, on June 8, three days after his graduation. A straight-B student, Jimmy Wilson has breezed through the University of Florida pre-law school on his own power. Proud of his ability to handle the leather straps and metal rods which replaced his limbs, he drives an automobile, writes his own exams and takes notes in longhand...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps strode briskly into a crowded House of Commons one afternoon last week to read the Labor government's budget for 1950-51. Boyishly, Cripps slapped his battered red leather dispatch case onto the table, grinned as he began a long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads...