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...those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...
...dark hair in a butch haircut, pouting lips and a perpetual hangdog look. At 23, he has an impressive criminal record and a reputation for secretiveness. He was born in Denver in 1932, the second child (by her second husband) of Daisie Walker, a politician's daughter from Steamboat Springs, Colo. When Jack was two, his father died, and Daisie was left penniless. She farmed out the boy and his older half-sister, Helen. Jack went to a Denver orphanage. In 1940, when his mother married John Earl King, a prosperous rancher, she gathered her family together again...
...Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him into his stateroom, locked myself in the room with him . . . and commenced throwing bottles of whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued...
...skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals (1952), whipped downhill with her old breathtaking skill, took first place in the slalom and giant slalom, tied for first in the downhill competition. Close behind Andy in the combined scoring, Katy Robolph, 24, from Reno, and Skeeter Werner, 21, from Steamboat Springs, Colo., poled home second and third to earn their places on the Olympic squad...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...