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...self-improvement. He has been studying the White House works of art. In February he asked White House Curator Clem Conger for historical details about all the objects in the Oval Office, which include an 18th century portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a Frederic Remington bronze, Broncho Buster (circa 1901), and the only known replica of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington, which is currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with his detailed knowledge of American artists. Thanks...
Died. Gilbert ("Broncho Billy") Anderson, 88, father of the movie horse opera; of a heart attack; in South Pasadena, Calif. Anderson did not know how to ride or shoot in 1903 when he appeared in The Great Train Robbery, which ran all of ten minutes and was the most successful and influential of the early story films. In 1907 he moved to California, where he directed, wrote and acted in some 375 westerns as Broncho Billy, a rough but noble Robin HoodrStyle desperado...
...Just the day before Strickman's filter was announced, HEW Secretary John Gardner told Congress that one-third of all deaths among American men aged 35 to 60 are hastened by cigarette smoking. Quite apart from the cancer question, said Gardner, smoking is the most important cause of broncho-pulmonary disease, is linked to stomach ulcers and heart disease (in which the death rate is 70% higher for smokers). Many researchers argue that the carbon monoxide, aldehydes and phenols contained in cigarette smoke are also pernicious-and are not stopped by filters. Moreover, some tars and nicotine still...
...Wild West were made for each other, and it was love at first sight. The first real feature movie ever made, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell...
...Cowboy Sir: Fie on the reviewer of The American Cowboy for referring to Dr. Frantz and me as "dude professors" and "vicarious vaqueros" [Nov. 14]. I was riding an Indian pony and not "grabbin- " leather when I was "going on" seven, and I have broken more than one broncho. Furthermore, we don't the cowboy, and we believe that and the reality are inseparable...