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...laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. ¶ In Detroit, Brace Beemer, radio's Lone Ranger for 20 years, turned a couple of six-shooters on the heroes of movie westerns because they are too "pure" and "slicked up." "It's a shame the way western heroes have been painted for kids," Beemer complained. "Sure, no smoking or drinking is a good idea...
...Gill, "we didn't have enough sense to be scared." They helped roll cigars in Tampa. To celebrate the Fourth of July, they climbed a peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. At the top they watched the lightning strike a forest below, while they chatted with the ranger and his wife. In Cripple Creek, after sampling "the best apple pie in the U.S.," they danced until...
...Wind. District Ranger Lou Geil, 43, the fire boss, had no time to waste talking; the fire was storming close to the park's Wilsonia Village and one of its most precious preserves: a great grove with thousands of magnificent sequoias, including the General Grant tree, the second largest on earth (267 ft. high and 107 ft. in circumference).* Geil mobilized every man possible, laid miles of pipeline overnight, pumped continuous sprays of water for 24 hours on smoking trees to save the village and the enormous grove...
...basin, Geil sent in a picked crew with curt orders to dig a last-ditch firebreak. His orders: the crew must be prepared to hole up in the cliffs, to live without supplies, lay through the fire if trapped,* but "tie up" the basin. They did. Last week a ranger and three Indians with 1,200 ft. of line clambered into Kings Canyon (which drops 4,000 ft. in two miles) to keep the fire from shooting along the canyon's wall. Hemmed in, the fire came at last under control. Loss: 17,000 acres of timber. The fight...
...ranger's advice: "If you get trapped, don't try to run uphill. You'll never make it. Go through the fire into the burned zone. You may get singed, but it gets cooler the farther...