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...Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...
Some recent imitators, good and bad: The Duke (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC) has echoes both of Damon Runyon and all the situation comedies from I Love Lucy to The Life of Riley. Starring Newcomer Paul Gilbert as a middleweight boxing champion who has been lured into culture through a business connection with a Harvard man (Claude Stroud), the opening script (written by Hollywood's Charles Isaacs and Jack Elinson) took a fresh and inventive look at a great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas...
...Washington the American Research Bureau reported the ten TV programs with the biggest audiences for the 1953-54 season. In order: I Love Lucy (see above). Dragnet, You Bet Your Life, Talent Scouts, Jackie Gleason (a newcomer to the top ten), Milton Berle, Life of Riley (another newcomer), Godfrey and His Friends, Our Miss Brooks and Toast of the 'Town (newcomer). Missing from the list this year: Your Show of Shows, Comedy Hour, What's My Line? ¶ From New York the Rocky Marciano-Ezzard Charles heavyweight-championship fight (see SPORT) was telecast on a closed circuit...
Painstakingly, Dr. Riley and his colleagues sought for causes and cures of what they named dysautonomia (disorder of the automatic nervous system). From operations on the living and autopsies on children who died of infections, they ruled out adrenal tumors or physical damage to the brain. So far, they have found no cause, but there is no doubt that the disease runs in families, and susceptibility may be transmitted by both parents through a recessive gene...
Last week, as Dr. Riley counted a total of 35 proved cases in the New York metropolitan area (with reports indicating a dozen more across the U.S. and Canada), the parents' group met to press its claim for a state charter. After incorporation, the parents hope to raise more money to help the doctor-researchers find ways to help their mysteriously afflicted children...