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...people, more than twice the number anticipated, came to Freedomland. This might have been good, but it was bad: the crowd struggled to walk through the semicompleted park, raised a storm of complaints and bad feeling. This was only the beginning of the trouble. A few days later, a stagecoach overturned, injuring ten people. Then three hoodlums robbed Freedomland's cash-control office of $28,836, and escaped. They were nabbed last week with only $14,563 left...
...proms. When he introduced the trimester system this summer, he spiced the package with a noncredit term touring Europe after the junior year. To make Parsons a summer festival, he staged a moonlight Mississippi cruise. Soon due: a summer semester-end blowout, complete with genuine Indians holding up a stagecoach, and contests to choose a Miss Frontier and catch a greased pig. The freshman dropout rate has fallen...
Died. Dudley Nichols, 64, onetime journalist (New York World) who brought care and skill to 30 years of writing and directing movies (The Informer, Stagecoach), adapted Mourning Becomes Electra for film and, at the insistence of his old friend, Eugene O'Neill, produced and directed it as well; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from the badmen. Deadwood, it was said, was a place where "the coward never started and the weak died...
...ripened rapidly. Gary Cooper, a sort of Abe Lincoln in Levi's, and John Wayne, a smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave like a man. And in such pictures as John Ford's Stagecoach and William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, the mythological struggle between Good and Evil was enacted on the personal plane; while in George Stevens' Shane and in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, the western hero for the first time in movie history had to face what...