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...hard-hitting baseball player as well, Baugh got an offer to try out as a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He settled instead for a professional football contract with the Washington Redskins. Owner George Preston Marshall introduced his new star to reporters by dressing him up in a cowboy outfit, from Stetson to high-heeled boots. Taciturn Sam answered questions in monosyllables. His most notable remark: "Mah feet hurt...
...learned other things. Accused of stabbing a boy in a brawl, he spent time in the Preston School of Industry (a reform school), where "I learned everything dirty there is to know about life." At Preston, he also learned about heroin. At the age of 16, soon after getting out of Preston, he took his first "pop" of heroin as casually as another youngster might take a bottle of soda. He did it because the bigger boys wouldn't take him to the beach with them unless...
...Tucker Auto Case, in which Promotor Preston Tucker's company went bankrupt before his rear-engine car got into mass production. SEC, said the committee, had waited too long in exposing the Tucker Corp.'s misleading statements about its solvency and prospects: "Had it done so, part of the loss which the investing public sustained in the Tucker case might have been averted...
...humor of Stephen Crane's cowpoke story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. A hard-drinking, fast-shooting old reprobate named Scratchy (Minor Watson), the last bad man left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much...
...Idaho, where Ezra was born. As the middle name indicates, he is a remote relative of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. Said Benson: "We have a common ancestral progenitor about six generations back. My great-great-grandmother was a Taft." Benson attended Oneida Stake Academy (Mormon) at Preston, Idaho and the Utah State Agricultural College, got his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1926, a master of science degree in agricultural economics from the University of Iowa...