Word: badmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from the badmen. Deadwood, it was said, was a place where "the coward never started and the weak died...
Died. Raymond Campbell Schindler, 77, low-keyed, grimly patient private detective who marshaled all the resources of modern criminology, spent months and huge sums of money to catch such peculiarly modern-day badmen as scrap-metal grafters and lackadaisical meat distributors, kept dramatic, publicized feats to a minimum (by proving incriminating fingerprints faked, he cleared Client Alfred de Marigny of the celebrated Bahamas murder of Sir Harry Oakes), never once wore a gun, or used his fist; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...
...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...
...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
Photogenic Scuttling. Roughly half of each 30-minute installment of Sea Hunt happens underwater. Skindiving Hero Mike Nelson (Bridges) has battled the odds in the form of sharks, octopuses, moray eels, manta rays, alligators, giant sea turtles, Aqua-Lunged badmen-and "rapture of the deep" (nitrogen narcosis). The whole production crew is equally at home at sea; Ziv Producer Tors, 42, is a zealous sea hunter, and Secretary Parry holds the world's depth record for women: 209 ft. down, off Catalina...