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...called Samuel A. Maverick a cattleman [TIME, Sept. 4]. He was an attorney. Maverick moved his law office from Pendleton, S.C. to Texas sometime after 1830. He accepted 600 head of cattle as an attorney's fee, and from this number hoped to breed a much larger herd. His unbranded yearlings fell into the hands of other cattlemen who promptly placed their brands on the cattle. After ten discouraging years Maverick sold his depleted stock for the amount of the original...
...noun maverick, taken from Cattleman Samuel A. Maverick* (1803-70), had long since become a recognized part of the American language. But as a proper name, it had gradually dropped out of the nation's ears since fire-bright Maury Maverick, New Deal Congressman (1935-38) and ex-mayor of San Antonio, became a political has-been. Last week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
With the appearance of Author Grey's eighth novel since his death in 1939, the mystery of where all the new books are coming from will puzzle many readers more than the maverick queen's bloody secret. Mrs. Zane Grey's answer: her in defatigable husband, who sometimes polished off a novel in two or three months of fast scribbling, was 15 to 20 manuscripts ahead of Harper's schedule. That could well mean another decade of easy readin' and hard ridin' before Zane Grey's zealous fans reach...