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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while Ah'm shakin' hands"). Born in Harrah, Okla., Dayle LyMoine Robertson earned a Silver Star during World War II. At 37 he spends much of his spare time drinking milk (three quarts a day), racing quarter horses and taking potshots at his TV opposition. Says Robertson: "The adult westerns are dishonest. All that conversation is just a cheap, underhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Yerupaja looked down from its eminence of 21,769 ft. upon the 13,400-ft. base camp of six young climbers who had never tackled anything so big in their lives. Jim Maxwell, George Bell, Austen Riggs and Graham Matthews had met at Harvard. The two others, Dave Harrah and Chuck Crush, were Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Harrah and Jim Maxwell pushed on alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Frozen Feet. It was Dave Harrah's voice, and it had a tale to tell. Dave and Jim had reached the summit by traversing an 18-in. snow rib that ran for about 300 ft. Coming back, they had stopped a moment-letting the rope that bound them together go slack-for Jim to snap a shot of the summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...exactly that moment, "rather quietly and without warning, a thousand tons of cornice and Dave Harrah dropped from view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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