Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SINGLES--K. Dalton (Y( DEF. M. Roberts, 3-6, 7-6, (5-4 in tiebreaker...
...recently read with considerable dismay Joe Dalton's review of Peter Gent's book, Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, in the March 23 Crimson. Although I have not read Gent's book and thus have no comment about Dalton's treatment of it, there are enough gratuitous salvos against my home state of Texas in the course of the review to merit this response...
...take the time to make the case for Texas, first, because the author surely knows there is more to Texas than the highlights of his review, and second, because to do so would dignify the review beyond reason. Dalton is surely correct when he implies his dissatisfaction with the increasing division of our country into self-interested fragments. That is just as surely the reason that this review's regional bigotry damns itself. I can only hope that he is not also provided access to a nuclear weapon at any time in the near future. Austin is simply too nice...
...lawman named William Tilghman had once worked with Bat Masterson in Dodge City. By 1915 he was directing westerns, which in those days often starred such authentic outlaws as Al Jennings and Emmett Dalton, last of the legendary family gang. Tilghman was on location in Chandler, Okla., when word came that a wild bunch headed by Henry Starr (Belle's nephew) had robbed a bank in Stroud, 17 miles away. The director dropped his camera, grabbed his gun and rode off in pursuit of the miscreants, capturing one "Alibi Joe" Davis before resuming work on his picture. The incident...
...nonproductive. When Pizarro and his fellow Christians took over the empire, one of their first acts was to make coca chewing available to the whole populace. The result was that there was no effort to resist or overthrow the Spaniards because of the lethargy the drug produced. Gordon H. Dalton Pinehurst...