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...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...
...heyday, the gold-mining town of Deadwood, S.D., nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from...
...they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...