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...eyes. Thousands of locals filled the square, making it impossible to get within one hundred yards of the bandstand. He managed to fight his way to a point directly behind the bandstand by about 150 yards and, what was more important, a few feet in front of the Alamo Bar and Grill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...western may be only wish-fulfillment and Saturday night projection. But hope sends up some of that smoke. There are cobwebs in the kitchen and stones in the stomach, and are we men or not? Down with Togetherness and remember the Alamo. A man, they say, can get lost in Texas...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road 26 miles. In Juneau too, as if insulated from the rest of the territory by the mountains, are those who are most vocal against immediate statehood, led by the Juneau Empire's Publisher William Prescott ("Alamo"') Allen, a former Texan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...chore from spreading butter to disemboweling enemies, also good for throwing), is still a topic of controversy among experts on such hardware. The question: Was it devised by obscure Frontiersman Rezin P. Bowie or by his famed brother, heroic Colonel James Bowie, who died in the siege of the Alamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just the right blend of John Wayne and Herb Shriner. And Writer Tom Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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