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...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...
...soft-voiced Editor Edward Weeks, who says that radio is his son's daily "equivalent of Keith's Vaudeville, which at his age I was allowed to see only once a fortnight. . . . Henry Aldrich [is the] blood brother of Penrod and Tom Sawyer; and the Lone Ranger ... is the Robin Hood of our time...
Haves & Have-Nots. The most optimistic of coaches was George Hunger of Pennsylvania, lone Ivy Leaguer rash enough to schedule both Army and Navy. He had a letterman line anchored on 250-lb. Tackle George Savitsky and a G.I. backfield starring ex-Air Corpsman Bob Evans, ex-Sergeant Don Schneider and ex-Army Fullback Farquahr Jones. Of Army and Navy, Coach Munger boasted: "We'll beat one of them. Wanna...
...fate of prisoners who fell sick was hardly better. Many a man who was sent to the dirt-floored buildings of Shinagawa, lone hospital for 8,000 prisoners near Tokyo, simply went to his death. There was no sanitation; patients slept without blankets on flea-ridden mats. The operating tables were bare boards. When the hospital's crematorium was bombed to rubble, prisoners were forced to cremate the dead on spits over an open fire...
...Vienna correspondent, Gedye was a lone wolf. He steered clear of the Cafe Louvre, where such mutually admiring members of the Anglo-American press club as Marcel Fodor. John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson talked away the days over Kaffee mit Schlagobers, and pooled their findings. He drifted around the country, wrote excellent travel and history books on Austria...