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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse James's posthumous pressagents; the ballad singers, have molded him to heroic proportions. So have most of his biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

"Mind Your Ps and Qs." In the fall of 1865 Jesse drifted back to Clay County, Mo. with other guerrillas "who refused to believe that the war was over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Misty Mourners. In his home state, public opinion on Jesse was often divided, but after he was killed in 1882 by Bob Ford, a reward-seeking member of his gang, many a misty-eyed Missourian mourned him as the last defender of the Confederate cause. Cheers greeted a jury'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Seeks Soft Shoe Man | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

As it was, the Crimson showed it had one strong team, capable of playing together and playing hard. Offensively, they played with enough team coordination to match the Tigers for well over half the game, but in the final quarter the line was just too tired to go on blocking...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Depth, Varied Attacks, Beat Crimson | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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