Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer-Director Norman Macdonnell, 36, describes Gunsmoke as "an adult western." Each week U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (a combination Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, played by Bill Conrad) meanders through a script about Dodge City & environs. The things that happen, while exciting, are seldom contrived for the sake of violence or plot; they happen because Dillon and the people of Dodge City circa 1880 are merely people who face human experiences...
Unhappy Man. In one recent script, Marshal Dillon arrives too late to prevent a lynching. Says Macdonnell: "We got tired of the standard save-'em-just-in-time show. As the play progresses, Matt learns that the guy who was lynched was completely innocent. He knows who the lynch leaders were, but what can he do? Nothing, not in those days, against those odds. So he leaves, without doing anything tangible. And yet, after he is gone, he has left behind in the minds of the townspeople a sense of tremendous shame for what they have done...
Elected candidates are: Dave Baum of Wigglesworth, Charles Brown of Stoughton, Donald Dawidoff of Wigglesworth, Otis Gates of Hollis, James Hays of Grays, Edward Keating, Jr., of Matthews, Mike Klein of Weid, Chuck LaMonte and Arthur McCarthy, both of Matthews Hall, and Matt Whelan, Jr., of Brighton...
...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...
Died. Theresa Capone, 85, mother of eight children, including three blacksheep -Matt, Ralph and Al; in Chicago...