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...winnowed out of a Pulitzer-prize history by Bernard DeVoto, the story tamely recalls 1950'S Broken Arrow, without its surprise or suspense. Trapper Gable marries a proud Indian maiden (Maria Elena Marques) so he can use her to ease his way into the beaver-rich bailiwick of her grandfather, a Blackfoot chief (played by well-disguised Oldtimer Jack Holt). On the trail, he learns to love and respect her. Their marriage wins the blessing of the Blackfoot ruler and gives them a son. But when one of Gable's men kills the old chief to satisfy...
...Lutheran theologian, he went to Harvard, where he studied writing under Critic Bernard DeVoto ("Cut out those adjectives"), became president of the Crimson, got a degree in History and Literature. Fuerbringer went back home to a reporter's job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a practical journalism school which carried in its masthead Joseph Pulitzer's injunction: "Never be satisfied with merely printing news." There he heard the exhortations of a demanding city editor on how to get a story ("Don't come back until you've got it") and the need for accuracy ("When...
...learning many practical things here. On the extracurricular side I now know how to start an old car on a cold morning, how to mix a martini a la Benny DeVoto, and how to tell a dirty story without giving offense...
...potential free-lance writer, DeVoto said, must have some other means of support during his years of "apprenticeship" before he can hope to earn a living by writing...
Magazine serial writers make the most money, DeVoto said, while writers of non-fiction articles require the most skill...