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...them all was Ned Buntline (Colonel E. Z. C. Judson), who led a life as strenuous as his fiction. He killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of his cut the rope. He lived to a sinful old age (65), a hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak...
...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
...face of such a world, some speakers seemed frankly exhausted. "I have almost reached the end of my rope," said Rhode Island's Governor John O. Pastore to the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy. "There are only so many things you can say to a graduating class and I've had dozens of occasions on which to say them." Echoed Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson at Western State Teachers College: "It makes little difference what I talk about, because you won't remember what I say, even if it's important, which...
Herewith my five-year-old daughter's provincial New England version of TIME'S [May 29] Betty Grable jump-rope doggerel...
Last month they shipped three cubic yards of food and suplies down to Lima--including half a mile of rope, 200 vinylite bags, one copy of Sherwood and Taylor's "Calculus," and three cases of needle soup...