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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote of him: "There was never a better-hearted man than Ben Thompson. It is doubtful if in his time there was another man living who equalled him with a pistol in a life and death struggle...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE POLICE NEED HELP | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...mythology of the West, there were only red men and white men, but several of the explorers of the Oregon Territory were black, while some 5,000 Negro cowboys roamed the range with Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. A later explorer, Matthew Henson, was Admiral Robert Peary's only companion when he first reached the North Pole, actually beating Peary to the Pole by 45 minutes, thus becoming the first man to stand on top of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Black Vacuum | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

DISCOVERY '68 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "The Ghosts of the Old West" walk again when Discovery visits Tombstone, Ariz., and reminisces about Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

With the score tied 3-3, the varsity proceeded to romp through six bouts in a row. Senior Brian Keidan started the rout with a 5-3 decision over Tom Masterson '45. Steve Shea followed with the first of his two wins in epee, a 5-0 whitewash against Eric Sollee '52, who is normally a sabre man. The third varsity triumph was by Harry Jergesen, who avenged last year's 5-0 loss to Giles Constable '50 with a 5-1 decision...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Varsity Defeats Alumni Fencers | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

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