WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad

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* Latest Nielsen ratings: Gunsmoke (40.1), Wagon Train (38.3), Have Gun, Will Travel (35.7), The Rifleman (34.0), Maverick (32.9), Wyatt Earp (31.8), Zane Grey Theater (31.1), Wanted, Dead or Alive (30.6). Only nonwesterns in the top ten: Lucy-Desi (34.9), Danny Thomas (34.5)

* A stingy gun is a concealed derringer. The border shift is a quick method of transferring a gun from one hand to the other. The road agent's spin was used when a man was forced to surrender his gun. As he handed it to his enemy, butt first, he slipped his forefinger through the trigger-guard, at the last minute spun the butt back into his palm and started chucking lead.

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