Word: earp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, 29. Paul is properly grateful. In his autobiography, Football and the Single Man (Doubleday; $4.95), the ex-Notre Dame star and veteran Green Bay Packers halfback does his best to repay everybody who, as he puts it, "contributed to making Paul Hornung, like Wyatt Earp, a legend in his own time...
...army rifle hidden in the washroom, came out firing. The rifle jammed after one shot, but the bullet killed one ban dit, tore through his body and critically wounded another. The third got away - with DiMaggio's money. The papers all ran big stories on the East Side Earp, as one reporter called him, but Charlie was fed up with public ity. "Patting you on the back," snapped Charlie, "doesn't put butter on my ta ble. It doesn't feed the family." And nothing seems to keep bandits out of his shop. The only...
...Named by U.S. officers for the scene of the Old West's most famous gunfight, the livery stable in Tombstone, Ariz., where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday gunned down three...
Indeed it is. And Director Ford adds stars, subplots and other furbelows that crucially impede the action. Among them is a hilarious cameo performance by James Stewart, who right around intermission time pops up in Dodge City for an irrelevant but clearly intentional spoof of Wyatt Earp. He guzzles, gambles, wisecracks, finally rides his rig out to drive off the Injuns, cheered on by a wagonload of painted ladies...
...real world the civil rights revolution has changed everything. Though he cannot ride a horse, rarely packs his .38 pistol and admits to raising petunias, broken-nosed ("I got it in the amatoors") Chief U.S. Marshal James Joseph Patrick McShane, 55, has out-Earped Earp while leading his 821 men to war in Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Oxford. Never before has the nation's senior law-enforcement agency - just 175 years old - looked less like a refuge for political grifters and more like the strong right arm of the nation's 393 federal courts...