[Cincinatus]

This man should have the gold tassel cut off of his mortarboard and his gown stripped away, and be forced to leave Emory University at dawn down the ranks of his colleagues, all facing away from him. That's how they showed it in the opening credits of that ancient TV series The Rifleman, starring Chuck Conners.

That was Chuck Connors second TV series, Branded. The Rifleman started each episode with Connors rapidly "fanning" shots from his custom, ring-levered Winchester 76, most likely into the carcas of some miscreant.

[beckett]

That was Chuck Connors second TV series, Branded. The Rifleman started each episode with Connors rapidly "fanning" shots from his custom, ring-levered Winchester 76, most likely into the carcas of some miscreant.

True story --- I dated Chuck Connors' niece years ago. His nephew, now a world famous deep sea fishing expert, is still a close friend of one of my brothers.

Connors' brother was a priest, one of those great priests of yesteryear who carried a Godly manner in a very masculine frame. He was a great athelete and just as handsome as his brother, maybe more so. He was just the kind of priest that has become exceedingly scarce in the Catholic Church today. As I see it, the Chuch's current troubles are directly traceable to that scarcity.