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Remarkable Resemblance. With that, Maverick gleefully dropped most of its own identity, loped off on a laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke...
...Supreme Court change is more than one of mere personality. Mr. Dooley was just being Mr. Dooley when he said that the court follows the election returns, but in a far broader sense the court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld...
...nation's leading steeplechase jockey, Frank ("Dooley") Adams, rode five-year-old Neji, the year's top steeplechase horse (five firsts in eight starts) to a three-quarter-length win in the world's richest steeplechase, the $57,300 Temple Gwathmey at New York's Belmont Park...
Dowling, 41, was a quiet, deadpan reporter whose field was war. He started out playing at it with the toy soldiers collected for him all over the world by his famous parents, Actor-Producer Eddie Dowling and Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once...
Died. John Graham Dowling, 41, veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay...