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...killed a man back in Texas. Brady is more Mexican than gringo now, a hard, quiet, mercenary gunman who works for a Mexican landowner. But he has a hankering for Texas and can never forget where home is. He makes it home for good, finally, as a Texas Ranger, but not until after enough Indian fighting and other assorted acts of violence to satisfy a Zane Grey...
...nearly a quarter-century, Nila Mack has been against new models in heroes. She doesn't care for spacemen (Buck Rogers), cowboys (the Lone Ranger) or clear-eyed adolescent adventurers (Jack Armstrong). As writer-producer-director of Let's Pretend (Sat. 11:05 a.m., CBS), she has stuck to her conviction that young radio listeners still like giants, witches and fairy godmothers best. Says Nila: "I'll back seven-league boots and magic wands any time against six-shooters and space ships...
...decades the "classical" selection on outdoor band concerts in the U.S., it now furnishes the musical signature of radio's Lone Ranger...
...Pulitzer's will in 1917 and awarded by Columbia University's trustees on the recommendation of advisory committees under the School of Journalism. The present Joseph Pulitzer, a member of Columbia's committee, did not vote on this particular award. † He picked the name of "Ranger" for U.S. Commandos. * One result: last week in New York, the editor and ex-managing editor of the Chinese-language Communist China Daily News were' indicted on 53 criminal charges in helping "an international racket entailing murder,, extortion, torture and, in general, commerce in human misery...
...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...