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While shooting scenes in Reno for Johnny Dark, a sports-car story, a Hollywood movie crew hired a local amateur-Nevada's leonine Senator Pat McCarran -to play the role of road-race starter. Although miscast in the silent role, McCarran whipped the green flag down with such artistry that only one retake was necessary. The Senator announced that his $10 pay would go to charity...
McCulloch began his newspaper career as a part-time reporter for the Reno Gazette while attending the University of Nevada. After graduating in 1941, he went to work in San Francisco for the United Press, later in Woodland, Calif, as reporter...
Democrat. After a three-year hitch in the Marine Corps (reaching the rank of sergeant), he returned to report for the Reno Gazette and double as staff correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle...
McCulloch signed on as a TIME stringer in 1951. One of his memories of those days is a hard-luck story with a happy ending. He had suggested that TIME do a story on Reno's famed Harold's Club as a successful business enterprise. The editors thought it was a good idea, told him to go ahead. When his research was almost completed, McCulloch was taken to the hospital for a midnight emergency appendectomy. By coincidence, TIME'S San Francisco Bureau Chief Al Wright arrived in Reno the next day, learned that McCulloch was temporarily...
...year after McCulloch became a stringer, he moved into the editor-manager chair of the Nevada State News, a tough, outspoken weekly published in Reno. He continued to report as a stringer for TIME, until he was asked to become a full-time correspondent. McCulloch is now stationed in Los Angeles, a member of TIME'S bureau reporting the news from that part...