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Lamar, Mo. (pop. 4,500) is going to do right by its most famous son. Last week Constable Everett Earp, who owns the five-room white frame cottage where Harry Truman was born in 1884, took matters into his own hands...
...past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted to be sheriff) and his cohort sat on the left...
...style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have...
...Johnstown, Pa. His father, Captain Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs, St. Louis and Memphis tracks he branched...
...topics as gangsters or prizefighters, this time has gone back to the days of the Western two-gun men. Partly historical, his graphic narrative smells more of gunpowder than of the lamp. Says he: "This story ... is based on the events leading up to and arising out of the Earp-Clanton feud. This famous old feud is still hotly discussed in the southeastern corner of Arizona...