Word: hickok
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALAMITY JANE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A musical special, starring Carol Burnett in the title role, Art Lund as Wild Bill Hickok...
...third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent knife-and gunfighter in the manner of Wild Bill Hickok, was more than a ready-made fictional hero: he was an embodiment of aristocratic tradition. As it happened, successive Falkners had successively less gumption. Novelist William, fourth in line, had in his father and grandfather suggestions of the thinning Sartoris and Compson clans-weak and neurotic aristocrats who let slip inherited...
...Yankee Slugger Roger Maris turned up in Rochester, N.Y., to accept the $10,000 S. Rae Hickok belt, awarded annually to the Professional Athlete of the Year. Maris would not say what he plans to do with the belt-but its 2¾ lbs. of gold and 27 diamonds should keep him in hamburgers until he gets around to signing his 1962 Yankee contract...
...making. No less dapper but far more subdued, both showed up last week at the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association dinner in Manhattan in well-tailored dark business suits. But at another dinner in Rochester, Palmer (TIME Cover, May 2) picked up a gaudy accessory: the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt awarded him as the outstanding professional athlete...