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...Spain. He was Beau Geste staving off a charge, Sergeant York capturing 132 Germans, Lou Gehrig saying goodbye to the Yankees. And, so often and so well that there are urchins in Marrakech who know his name, he was the tall man-boyish and strong in The Virginian, wind-lined and stronger in High Noon-who walked arrow-straight down the street to meet the killers. Last week the tall man was dead...
...became a star with his first facedown, in the picture that created the western. He also became the Virginian. In private, Coop could talk to royalty without fingering his white tie. Onscreen, he guarded his strength-of-ten, a quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years-a longer span than even Gable's-he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn...
Galahad Suit. Fortune favors her own; Washington did not drown in the Delaware, and Winston Churchill (as his legend has it) escaped from a Boer prison camp a few hours before he would have received a pardon. In 1951 the Virginian was a bashful, 50-year-old boy on whose career the gossipists were already dropping lilies. Then came the most famous walk-down of them all, High Noon, and here was Hollywood in top form: fashioning a Galahad suit of shining corn for an actor who did not have...
Monk Noland says that he used to squire Jackie around. Jim Wiley is a drawly Virginian, and sells his yearlings at Saratoga for enormous prices. Eve Fout was skiing in Switzerland at the time of the steak roast, but has since returned. She is, probably, Mrs. Kennedy's closest friend down here. Eve paints and sells traditional horse pictures, shows horses, and is one of the district commissioners of the Orange County-Middleburg U.S. Pony Club, into which Caroline will no doubt be absorbed...
Henry H. Fowler, 52, Under Secretary of the Treasury. Courtly little "Joe" Fowler, a Virginian and a Yaleman (LL.B., '32) spent more than a decade as an attorney for the New Deal without ever becoming a convinced New Dealer. Once rated by a fellow lawyer as "the most careful man in the U.S.," Fowler reached his high point of Government service in 1952, when he was named director of the Office of Defense Mobilization...