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...Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming: "I'm glad to see you, Harry, bless your old soul...
...Horrified spectators watched the Commander grab a revolver, drill a hole in a ten-gallon can. He explained: "It's just water, but it's been hanging there nine days labeled 'dynamite' and nobody noticed...
...over the U.S. that night hundreds of thousands of children to whom the Ranger had sent toy lariats, six-shooters, ten-gallon hats and bristling wild west mustaches, whom he had commissioned Rangers and pledged to good conduct and fair play, mourned the most adored character ever to be created on the U.S. air. Many an older listener mourned too. The New York Times sounded the following editorial requiem: The Lone Ranger, under that name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William...
...cars, those quartered at the Prison System's ten farms are taken to the '"Walls" (main prison) at Huntsville. More than 75% of the 6,500 inmates get to see the show. Those who think they can manage a wild bull or a horse "with a bellyful of bedsprings" take part. Each contestant gets $3 and a chance to win an additional $15 to $25 (first prize), $10 (second) or $7.50 (third) in the afternoon's eleven events. They also get a chance to wear ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots and chaps over their white ducks...
Buck Benny Rides Again hides Comedian Benny under a ten-gallon hat, takes him west to prove himself a he-man to attractive Ellen Drew. Otherwise it is just a Jack Benny radio program minus Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), and Benny addicts should find it just as entertaining. It has Rochester (Eddie Ander son), Benny's gravel-voiced, colored stooge; Carmichael (the polar bear); the disembodied voice of Fred Allen (whose mock feud with Benny weekly wows their camp followers); tunes, dances, a lot of fancy showmanship, girls and gags. People with a taste for deeper humor...