Word: lawman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Francis H. (Fran) Striker, 59, author of the saga of the masked rider of the plains. The Lone Ranger, by far the most enduring of all western radio heroes; in a head-on automobile collision near his home in Arcade. N.Y. Striker first conceived of the straight-shooting lawman in 1930, and the first episode was broadcast by Detroit radio station WXYZ in 1933. Until the program went off radio nine years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some...
...McCrea) obsolete. Then he gets the offer of man's work: bankers in the town of Hornitos want him to pick up and transport gold along lonely trails from a new strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand...
...corrupt New York City administration. He spent nine years as chief justice of New York City's Court of Special Sessions, retiring in 1960 and giving as his reason ill health induced by the "constant anxiety, irritation and strain" of the job. He was a suave, London-born lawman, with plenty of influential friends-among them New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It was Celler who pushed his appointment as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York; Attorney General Robert Kennedy agreed, and sent...
...found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with an almost evangelical zeal he went on to schedule such landmarks of mediocrity as Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, The Roaring '20$, The Rifleman, The New Breed, Straightaway, My Three Sons, The Hathaways, Follow the Sun, Lawman, Adventures in Paradise and Bus Stop...