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...uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked out a claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal. When he finally reached his truck again, he was retching with agony from arsenic poisoning picked up by drinking...
...dying radioman got off an S O S; then the defenseless British airliner flamed out of the sky, flattened out and slid onto the water. Nine persons including an American father and his two sons, aged two and four years, sank with the plane; nine survived on a life raft...
...Buiclc-Berle Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Ann Sheridan and George Raft...
...picture: "The country's alive with Indians." Through this red-man-infested landscape moves Rory Calhoun (delicately described as Marilyn's fiancé), carrying a mining claim won in a card game, and astride a horse stolen from honest Farmer Robert Mitchurn. After Rory, on a raft, come Widower Mitchum, his ten-year-old son (Tommy Rettig) and Actress Monroe. In making the trek, Mitchum wrestles in turn with a mountain lion, a knife-wielding badman, several Indians, and Marilyn. She gives him by far the toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated...
...paid, and left, feeling like George Raft...