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...years. But Turkey was up for re-election ("Let's have Turkey in November"). He had nothing against the hound-dog boys personally, but the farmers had the votes. Turkey had read about a man in Brownwood named Adam L. Lindsey, who could call foxes with a cow horn. He sent...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
...runs out of water in the desert, and is found dead drunk after two days of guzzling Magic Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details together with much of a plot, and relies on the second rate songs of his cowboy chorus to fill in the gaps. When Mr. Ford, like the little girl, is good he is very very good, but in "Wagonmaster" he is horrid...
...crowded ballroom of St. Louis' Statler Hotel one day last week, a heavyset, greying woman rose at the speakers' table, eyed her luncheon audience ap-praisingly through horn-rimmed glasses and began: "You're not going to like anything I say, but I don't care, so long as you listen...
Meanwhile, the musical side of the picture gets progressively worse. Upon arrival in New York, Rick is supposed to knock out the jazz impresarios with a torrid solo in a dive called "Galba's." In the picture he goes to Galba's, takes out his horn, and tears into "With a Song in My Heart...