Word: roes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Niagara (20th Century-Fox) is a thin trickle of melodrama with a Niagara Falls setting. The picture casts Marilyn Mon roe as a curvaceous tramp who plots to murder her husband (Joseph Gotten...
...night last week, Roe's career ended; as he was unlocking his car on the street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was hit by three twelve-gauge shotgun slugs. Ted was laid out in a $3,500 casket, and got the biggest Negro funeral in the Midwest since Prizefighter Jack Johnson was sent to his reward under a bee's paradise of floral offerings in 1946. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart...
...syndicate took over his policy wheels, and it was hard for his admirers not to feel that Ted Roe, for once, had pushed his luck too far. That is, until his widow let them in on a secret: Lucky Ted had an abdominal cancer, and expected to die within a few months...
...ring and his theatrics are gone, but the traditions and rituals of Germany's "noblest" sport have survived. Last week, at the height of the Blattzeit (roe deer mating season), hundreds of hunters trod through West Germany's deer country. Few could afford Göring's "hoch" style of shooting, but those who could manage it wore the hunter's minimum dress-green knickers, brown or green suede jacket, cravat, stylish hat, rubber-soled stalking shoes...
...hand-tooled Mannlichers, the hunters carried brass horns and other noisemakers for luring a stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...