Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke made 174 pictures before he reached the winners' circle with True Grit. Big Roman made it on his first try. The three-year-old thoroughbred, John Wayne's only race horse, made his debut with a convincing two-length victory in the fifth race at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. Big Roman ran the six furlongs in a creditable 1:10 3/5, opening speculation as to what he might do with his 250-lb. boss in the saddle...
Recent studies bear out Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson's findings that men who enjoyed sex earlier in life can, if all else goes well, continue to enjoy it. Questionnaires over a ten-year period at Duke showed that the same men's interest in sex changed little from age 67 to 77, although there was a slight drop in activity. Result: a gradual widening in what the researchers coolly call the "interest-activity gap." A much lower proportion of women continued to be interested in sex after 67, but they managed to keep their interest-activity graph lines close...
...Duke still rides tall. Trouble is that he doesn't ride often. John Wayne's advancing years (he is 63) are keeping him pretty much out of the thick of things these days. Instead of mixing it up with marauders or running rustlers out of town, the Duke can more often be seen back at the ranch trying to square some domestic difficulty or right a faulty romance. His glorious gun battle with Lucky Ned Pepper's boys in True Grit looks threateningly like a last blast, a melancholy six-gun Gotterdammerung...
...owner who spends a good bit of time looking down from a mountain surveying his nearby spread. It is sometimes difficult from that vantage to determine what he has more of-acres or subplots. His niece Sallie (Pamela McMyler)-his brother's girl, daughter of the woman the Duke himself loved and lost-has come to stay. She has been seeing a good deal of that young trail hand from over at the Tunstall place, boy name of Billy Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel). Billy's rival of legend, a onetime buffalo hunter who calls himself Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett...
Just when it appears as though this brawl is about to get out of hand, the Duke comes on and settles it all down. After a few furious fistfights, some ripsnorting, glass-shattering shoot-ups and a thunderous cattle stampede, things slip quietly back to normal. "Well," says one character, "everybody knows there's no law west of the Pecos and no God west of Dodge." The Duke smiles, and rides off to the top of that mountain again. There he sits and remembers, perhaps back to the days of the great John Ford westerns when a man could...