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Berkeley Assemblyman Do Mulford said that the uprising was "far more insidious than it appears on the surface." Addressing the GOP State Central Committee, he termed the demonstrations "Communist inspired...
...questioned Brown's general wisdom, and Senate President Pro Tem Hugh M. Burns blasted the budget as "politically dishonest." As for the Republican minority, it has naturally opposed Pat. Therefore, taking second things first, Brown recently summoned to his office G.O.P. Assembly Leaders Charles J. Conrad and Don Mulford, began lecturing them about legislative responsibility. Mulford reminded Brown that "many of your problems are generated by your own party." Pat knew it all too well. His fist crashed on his desk as he blurted: "Those bastards...
...Next day Mulford and Conrad could hardly wait to report what they had heard to a Republican State Central Committee meeting. And at the Governor's press conference, reporters asked the inevitable question. Brown could not stop replying. "I may have used a rough word," he said. "It was not a profane word. I believe that I have gotten in the habit during the legislative session of using some words that probably a Governor shouldn't use, but I was speaking generally rather than specifically...
...spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
Died. Clarence Edward Mulford, 73, prolific author (Bar 20, On the Trail of the Tumbling T), creator of the durable Hopalong Cassidy series; after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income...