Word: derringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a...
The scion of a wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was...
The most restrained of the gun magazines until Ashley Halsey Jr., 58, became editor last year, Rifleman is now the leading crusader against gun controls. Halsey, a South Carolinian who was an editor of the Saturday Evening Post for 18 years, runs articles in every issue lauding the man with...
Today, Kelly is committed to directing The American Male, an irreverent look at the species by European women, and Tom Swift, a satirical treatment of derring-do in the early 1900s. Last week he began flexing his joints for a dancing stint on the Jackie Gleason Show. No barbell and...
Less Derring-Do. That nice price reflects the fact that the agency, presently known as Pinkerton's Inc., is profiting from the growing demand for unblinking private police services. Revenues last year reached $71,379,000 and profits were $1,936,000, owing less to derring-do involving rustlers...