Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then, there is a notable lone investigator, Delaware's Senator John Williams, who stirred up the case against the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Williams, who lends a hand to any committee, has been busy supplying leads involving the Farm Credit Administration and the Commodity Credit Corp...
...Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
Says Trendle: "Without detracting from the thrill and excitement, we try to convey a message that subtly teaches patriotism, tolerance, fairness and respect for the rights of all men." On the air, the sponsored (by General Mills) Lone Ranger is so strait-laced that he "avoids commercialism during the entertainment feature." Off the air, like his great rival, Hopalong Cassidy, he relaxes to the extent of endorsing some 70 commercial products, from wallpaper and hats to schoolbags and harmonicas...
Despite many public appearances-he drew 48,000 people in Miami's Orange Bowl and 100,000 to Detroit's Belle Isle the Lone Ranger is seldom identified as a 49-year-old actor named Brace Beemer, who stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 195 Ibs., and raises saddle horses on his Michigan farm. Like Trendle and Script Director Francis Striker, Beemer has been with the show since its inception. He served as program narrator during the five years when Actor Earle Graser, who died in 1941, played the Lone Ranger...
...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...