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Word: grandpap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alert Gunsmoke director spotted his name and sent for his photograph. As easy as that, William Hickman Hill Jr., 19, grandson of the late Tom Mix, was off to Hollywood. He has now finished playing a drifter in a forthcoming TV episode in hopes that his grandpap's talents were hereditary. At least some of them seem to be, because "Hick" is already a pretty fair rider and roper, used to do it for a living as foreman on his father's Laredo ranch. "Back home in Texas, I made $5 a day," he says. "But here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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