Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most fabulous of them all was Ned Buntline (Colonel E. Z. C. Judson), who led a life as strenuous as his fiction. He killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of his cut the rope. He lived to a sinful old age (65), a hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak...
...little boys, in pot & pan armor, duel with wooden spoons for the right to be her king. When both of them are finally stretched out on the floor dead, little Lucy Willow sighs and sings Author Stein's closing lines...
...Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes in a burning house; a bank holdup and, finally, an exciting rifle duel on the side of a craggy cliff...
Written and produced by Novelist Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...
...fill in," has produced one of the best Yardling track teams in recent years. The freshmen, improving steadily, have not lost a meet all Spring, compiling a total of five wins. The season was highlighted by a 92 to 48 victory over Yale. The freshmen have no more duel eels. Their next meet will be the New England A.A.U.'s June...