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Died. Bert deWayne Morris, 45, pre-World War II screen glamour boy (Kid Galahad), who won his wings as a fighter pilot (57 missions, seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif...
...fantastically colorful period of U.S. history, the era when there was "no law west of Kansas City, and west of Fort Scott no God." For an account of the past and the present of a great folk legend, see the SHOW BUSINESS cover story, The Six-Gun Galahad...
...television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter of the perennial Wild West show, is the immortal theme of every hero...
...King an annual sniff of hot pie in payment of his feudal dues, that a certain bone from the body of a pure black cat that had been boiled alive was believed to make one invisible. Against these curiosa, the characters still manage to hold their own: Sir Galahad, who is so priggish a saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing his own sprightly colloquialisms with the archaic grandeur...
...they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue "the most beautiful woman in the world...