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Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
Pride, the U.S. champion 5.5-meter yacht, skippered by New York's Pete Masterson: the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup, from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's challenger Bibis II, in three straight races on Long Island Sound. Obviously the faster boat in heavy seas and high winds, Pride's winning margins were conclusive: 4 min. 14 sec., 5 min., and 1 min. Often called the "Little America's Cup," the Seawanhaka Cup competition is similar to the America's Cup in all but one respect: the U.S. has no monopoly on it. Pride...
...greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier than sin. It recalled the West's real life as well as its real death; one memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with bullets that it looked-making the Bat Masterson kind of tough talk come true-like a sieve. Ranging over more than 300 still pictures, the TV camera showed the hardships of the "unmarried, unchurched, and unwashed'' miners, the dust and sweat of the cattle drives, the tragedy of the Indians, who fell, inevitably, to the restless...
Variety-World of Show Biz (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). With his guests, Chita Rivera, and Gene Barry, Sid Caesar parodies Bat Masterson, silent films and nightclub poetry readings...
TIME'S May 9 issue erred in stating that Bat Masterson "will not return to the air next season." This program has been renewed by Sealtest Foods...