Word: jubal
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Like Shane and Hondo, Jubal is just one of those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...
...Jubal runs away, until he finds Ernest Borgnine, the friendly ranchowner who looks like a Bronx butcher. After some preliminary bronc-busting, Borgnine gets to like Jubal (Glenn Ford)--"I trust you, Jubal"--and the trouble begins. It seems that Borgnine's wife, some starlet with a wavering English accent, also thinks she'd like to trust Jubal...
...summer of 1864, Confederate General Jubal A. ("Old Jubilee") Early sprayed tobacco juice on the ground within six miles of Washington and threw the North into such a tizzy that the Democrats decided to wait until things quieted down before holding their convention. They finally met on Aug. 29 and nominated General George B. McClellan, who set about failing in politics as he had in war. Since that unhappy lesson, the Democrats have held their conventions earlier. Last week, however, new National Chairman Paul Butler announced that the 1956 convention will start Monday, Aug. 27, so as to pack...
...road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made secure by the legendary skirmish between Stonewall Jackson and Nonagenarian Barbara Fritchie, tidied up some leftover history. Two years after its encounter with Jackson, Frederick was threatened with the torch by Confederate General Jubal Early, bought him off by putting up $200,000 in ransom money which the town borrowed in haste from five local banks. Ever since, Frederick's taxpayers have been paying off the debt. Last week, with a final installment of $20,000, Mayor Donald Rice paid the last...
This week, the War Department arranged to send brusque, bustling White House Secretary Steve Early to SHAEF as trouble shooter. Franklin Roosevelt's press handyman, whose ancestors include Confederate General Jubal Early, was a staff member on World War I's famed Stars & Stripes, used to be a newspaperman himself...