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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayne tradition. "When I came in," he claims, "the western man never lost his white hat and always rode the white horse and waited for the man to get up again in the fight. Following my Dad's advice, if a guy hit me with a vase, I'd hit him with a chair. That's the way we played it. I changed the saintly Boy Scout of the original cowboy hero into a more normal kind of fella...
...were in the latter group." A risky place to be; when Wayne praised Larry Parks for admitting his Old Left indiscretions, Hedda Hopper bawled out the Duke publicly. He got the message. "I think those blacklisted people should have been sent over to Russia," he now declares. "They'd have been taken care of over there, and if the Commies ever won over here, why hell, those guys would be the first ones they'd take care of ?after me." Still, even when he became president of the alliance, Wayne viewed politics as a necessary evil. "My main object...
...message, send a telegram." In the territory of True Grit he can safely espouse the hard line without having a Congressman on his back. "In spite of the fact that Rooster Cogburn would shoot a fella between the eyes," theorizes the law-and-order man, "he'd judge that fella before he did it. He was merely tryin' to make the area in which he was marshal livable for the most number of people...
Real Losen. Five ABC officials, including founders James Walsh, 52, and Robert D. Hayes, 68, were convicted by an Orange County jury after a five-week trial on charges ranging from conspiracy to grand theft; three others pleaded guilty. None received jail sentences, but they were placed on probation for up to three years and given fines as high as $7,000. Hayes and Walsh, among others, said that they would appeal on the ground that no criminal intent was involved, but their careers as tax consultants have already been ruined. ABC is virtually out of business...
...party was a bit uncomfortable for Junior, but despite "The trouble with some of the words I'd never heered before," he says, "I'd like to do it again some time." Undoubtedly, he will get the chance. As a summer substitute, Hee Haw will go off the air Sept. 7, but its extraordinary Nielsen rating makes the show a likely CBS replacement for January dropouts. Apparently, many American viewers are fed up with the "crisis of the cities" programming that fills the TV news, and are seeking solace in the eternal verities -and inanities-of the country...