Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heart of Gold," concerns a starving Broadway actress and her whole starving company, who attempt to open a summer theater in a barn, left to the actress by a philanthropic aunt. The plot evolves around the fun and games the actors have with the sheriff and local motion picture theater owners...
Columnist Buckshot Putting aside his bone-handled .45 one day last week, Sheriff Tom Will ("Buckshot") Lane of Wharton County, Tex. reached for a typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale...
...presses were waiting; this week thousands of Texans in & out of Wharton County were eating up Sheriff Lane's rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5,800 Stinson Station Wagon that his admiring readers and constituents bought him last year. Undaunted, Sheriff Lane switched to a car, followed a 300-mile trail to the store where he seized the stolen machines. Like an accomplished serial writer, Buckshot hoped that by the next installment he might also seize...
...appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
News, the county sheriff found the body of a murdered woman in a snowdrift outside the city. Presbrey recognized her as Elsie Lanage, a friend of his own father-in-law. Presbrey took his suspicions first to his city editor, then to the sheriff. The Daily News got the inside story, and Pres-brey's father-in-law got a life term at Minnesota's Stillwater prison for murder...