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...Arts' The Main Attraction. He is knocked silly in a barroom brawl and revived by Chianti spilled over his head by a circus floozy. He sleeps in her wagon ("Won't there be talk?"), later stabs her husband, runs away, is seduced by a bareback rider. Where on earth went all of Pat's on-screen morality? "I have stepped out of the groove," he said. "In my first six movies I played myself. From now on I don't care if I play a derelict or a drug addict, just so long as the movie...
...people realize how difficult it is for a Negro to travel by car through the South," Gartner stated. He noted that the present project is allied with CORE's well-known Freedom Rider campaign to desegregate bus terminal facilities in Mississippi and Alabama...
Died. Francis H. (Fran) Striker, 59, author of the saga of the masked rider of the plains. The Lone Ranger, by far the most enduring of all western radio heroes; in a head-on automobile collision near his home in Arcade. N.Y. Striker first conceived of the straight-shooting lawman in 1930, and the first episode was broadcast by Detroit radio station WXYZ in 1933. Until the program went off radio nine years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some...
Technology marches on. even in gangland. The automobile made possible the invention of The Ride-in which the rider could be transported alive to a place convenient for his execution. But there was still the body, and the wearisome investigation that it could bring. The next advance was the concrete block, in which the body could be encased, then given the deep six. It was still possible, though, to retrieve it, if some detective hit upon the right place to grapple...
Died. Gabriele Münter, 85, eminent German expressionist painter and one of the key founders of the fabled Blue Rider group of modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee), a mournful, gentle Berliner who was Abstractionist Kandinsky's longtime mistress and just last year received her first U.S. one-woman show; after a long illness; in Murnau, Germany. Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance...