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Until One Man's Family is crossed with the Lone Ranger, U.S. radio will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called...
...body was found by a forest ranger on Monday. While camping in Sequoia National Park last Saturday with his brother and a friend, Tuttle and the friend decided to climb separate peaks. Tuttle failed to return...
...trademark flourished. Every cowboy, fake and real, from Buffalo Bill to the Lone Ranger, wore a Stetson. After the Boer War, famed General R. S. S. Baden-Powell ordered 10,000 Stetsons for his South African police, setting the style for thousands of police and military institutions to follow (including Canada's Mounties, the Texas Rangers, Fiorello LaGuardia). The Oxford English Dictionary picked up the name Stetson as a synonym...
Boarding Party. Nevertheless the Ranger put aboard a crew that outnumbered the British party, got the engine started, cast off the British towlines, lowered the British flag, restored the Stars and Stripes, and ordered the British off the ship. They got off. According to an R.A.F. pilot who flew over the scene, "it looked like a hell of a battle going on down there." But the Elizabete's second officer said later that there were "only black looks and curses...
...Farmer, and how much the little Elizabete's efforts were worth. According to the existing salvage treaty (signed in 1910), "no remuneration is due if the services rendered have no beneficial result." The Elizabete's skipper thought he could have brought his tow into port. The Ranger's skipper thought...