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...buried cache of arms, surrendered to the British last week along with grain sacks bursting with notched homemade grenades, was a sorry-looking collection, but Grivas said he could have gone on fighting "forever." "Some day," he said, "the Greek Cypriots should erect a statue to [British Field Marshal Sir John] Harding, for his cruelty and stubbornness helped me more than anything else. Sir Hugh Foot [the present Governor] was a different man. A diplomat...
...talking horse of the average trail-feverish American. A man in Pennsylvania, angered when his wife turned off Have Gun, Will Travel while he was watching it, ran for his revolver and took a shot at her. (He missed.) In Florida one priest bet another that Marshal Matt Dillon was faster on the draw than Paladin-loser to say early Mass on Sunday. Tie-in sales of toys suggested by TV westerns are expected to hit $125 million this year. And at last count, the U.S. had about 600 "fast-draw clubs...
James Arness (6 ft. 7 in., 235 lbs., 48-36-36), who plays Gunsmoke's Marshal Matt Dillon, is probably the biggest thing ever seen in blue jeans. (One director had to stand him in a hole in order to get his head in the picture.) What horse, short of a Percheron, could carry him for more than a couple of miles? But at his best, Actor Arness manages to behave with a sort of unheroic, splatter-dabs-and-huckydummy homeliness that makes the customers imagine themselves in the West as it really was; and the illusion is further...
Radcliffe Seniors have selected Juanita K. Cohen '59, of Whitman Hall and New York City, to be First Class Marshal...
...Second Marshal will be Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Third Marshal, Nancy L. Proger '59, of comstock Hall and Brookline; Fourth Marshal, Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; and Fifth Marshal, Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn...