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...have been in a friendship that goes back to 1932 and summer stock. Now the old cronies have teamed up again in The Cheyenne Social Club, a wonderfully outdated odyssey of bawdy innocence. True, the film is populated with more pasteboard characters than you could empty a pair of Colt Peacemakers at. There is not just one whore with a heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors...
...nine daily racing sheets predicted, a chestnut colt named Tanino Moutiers from Hokkaido broke away from the field of 22 three-year-olds to win the l½-mile race. The purse of $63,000 raised his total earnings to $284,000, a record for three-year-olds inJapan. At the finish, poorer but poetic grandstanders followed tradition by throwing their losing tickets in the air in unison to simulate the falling of cherry blossoms...
THOMAS L. MCCLINTOCK Colt's Neck...
...Shotgun blasts have been fired through his office door. He has been beaten up. Angry, anonymous voices constantly threatened him over the phone. Last January somebody poured gasoline under his newspaper's back door and set the building ablaze. Such attacks have moved Hicks to pack a .25 Colt automatic in his billowing pants and sometimes mount a special night watch with a Winchester .30-.30. But he still prefers to do battle with the same weapon that provoked the harassment-the weekly Tennessee newspaper he took over in 1967, the Monroe County Democrat (circ...
...contender in a future Kentucky Derby may be Je Namath. Not the New York Jets' gimpy quarterback, but a brown three-year-old colt owned by Mrs. Liz Tippett (the former Mrs. Jock Whitney). "He's big and beautiful just like his namesake," said Mrs. Tippett. "But he's a little sounder in wind and limb-and he has good knees...