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Cowboy King. To Western lovers whose text is the TV screen and the local movie house, the news that Buffalo Bill collected art may sound downright subversive. In fact, it was darned shrewd. Many of the paintings featured old Bill himself, adding luster to his legend. But as a chief...
The Army understandably thinks that Staff Sergeant James Reid, 45, a World War II truck driver who was assigned to the Medical Corps, did more than just his job. His recommendation for a Silver Star notes that he kept on tending the wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down...
German Actress Elke Sommer. But Elke sighed that the whole thing left her a little cold. "I'm very happy that I'm keeping up their morale," said she, but posing for that kind of stuff "makes you feel so silly." Well then, didn't she feel...
The description is particularly relevant to Lyndon Johnson's staff. "With this President," says Moyers, "you've got to be ready to catch the ball and run with it any time it's tossed to you. You've got to be a darned good generalist." To...
Educators' files are filled with records of kids who excelled in IQ tests but who failed to live up to expectations. "A child may score in the 140s and yet be too darned lazy to read a book or do any of the tough groundwork, and he'll...