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...recommend the United States seaman who, in the recent battle in the Barents Sea between a Russia-bound convoy and the Germans, having been torpedoed, was riding astride a capsized lifeboat, waving his arms as the other ships in the convoy passed him, and shouting "Hi-Yo Silver...
Ever since 1934, a few lively bars of the William Tell Overture and the wild, hyper-Western cry "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" has announced that the Lone Ranger was riding again on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last month the Ranger was riding a new range. The Blue Network had successfully outbid MBS, has been awarded the program (7:30 p.m. E.W.T.) by Sponsor General Mills...
...readers. Mutual decided to tilt high-minded Ryder against masked Ranger. They put Red on a Mutual hookup at the same hour. To the tune of The Dying Cowboy the Ryder thundered in on his horse, Thunder, finished in a dead heat against Silver, the Ranger's hi-yo...
...Thirty-eight, Beemer stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 200 lb., is an excellent horseman, a superb shot, a handy man with a 35-ft. bull whip. His voice is so much like Graser's that his substitute version of the Ranger's famed cry to his horse: "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" will scarcely be noticed by the nation's moppets. All along, he has represented the Ranger in his few public appearances. In 1933 when Beemer as the Lone Ranger made a personal appearance at Detroit's Belle Isle on the occasion of an annual public...
...only are the Lone Ranger and "Hi-Yo, Silver" the inspiration for the nation's No. 1 cinema serial and a comic strip in 81 daily newspapers at home and abroad, they are licensed as trade names to 53 manufacturers of everything from banks to bubble gum. So his horse will hardly be renamed. The Ranger will have to find some other way of making children pester their mothers to switch from Silvercup to Bond bread...