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...world where beat-and-swing-and-pack-'em-in no longer pays off, Les Brown advises: "Hire good men, make hit records, treat the men well, make hit records . . . hold on to the men, make hit records." For the Band of Renown, it works pretty well...
Authors Dee Brown and Martin Schmitt spin plenty of such robust yarns in Trail Driving Days, and for added flavor and authenticity they pack in 229 portraits and illustrations. Some of the stories they tell have been told before, but seldom if ever have so many good ones been strung together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
What started out on December 7 as just another modern sculpture exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has turned into a free-swinging artistic rhubarb, with two University professors among the pack howling for the avantegardists' skins...
...ever. Once after he had brought a plane in safely on one wheel with one engine ripped off, he described the incident as "nothing to get excited about." Said Carmichael last week after signing the deal: "It was about as casual as if we were buying each other a pack of cigarettes...
...Post decided to investigate Billingsley first, then dropped him in favor of his great & good friend Winchell, because "all the trails seemed to lead to Winchell." Editor Wechsler sent a pack of seven reporters after the story. They spent two months at the job before Editor Wechsler sat down to write most of the series himself...