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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...
...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...
...Flower) in the best supporting actress competition was loudly denounced as "a joke" by Ruth Berle. There was general dismay that neither Susannah York (They Shoot Horses) nor Dyan Cannon (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) had won. Some guests booed John Wayne's triumph as best actor for True Grit, but the sound had approving overtones. "----the Viet Cong," snarled Lee Marvin. "Get those yellow bastards, John," exhorted Laugh-In Producer Ed Friendly. "Tell us about America, John," chimed in Shirley MacLaine as the Duke wiped away a tear after receiving the first Oscar of his career...
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Sometimes he gets so vicious that even the gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...