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I In approved western style Broderick Crawford and Glenn Crawford draws and looses a volley by fanning, which is<br />
Ford stalk each other in movie, "The Fastest Gun Alive." remarkable as he uses un-fannable double action :4l.<br />
and-fire time of .36 of a second. This<br />
is slow by Ojala standards but it's real<br />
good shooting, amigos; real good<br />
shooting. And O'Brian puts his dinero<br />
right back of his talk. He offers to<br />
bet $1,000 that no moving picture-TV<br />
performer can out-draw him, proceeds<br />
to go to the loser's favorite charity.<br />
This challenge by O'Brian brings up<br />
a question somewhat bigger than man-<br />
to-man shoot-out between two moving<br />
picture-TV personalities. Claims about<br />
"the fastest gun alive" have been go-<br />
ing the rounds for a long time~claims<br />
by exhibition shooters, law enforce-<br />
ment officers and others, as well as by<br />
the boys from the studios. How about<br />
a quick-draw match pitting all of the<br />
Hollywood swifties and anybody else<br />
who cares to enter, against accurate,<br />
unbiased timing devices, to see how<br />
fast any living man actually can get a<br />
gun out of a holster, fire it, and put<br />
a bullet into a fair-sized predetermined<br />
target?<br />
The prospect of such an impartial<br />
test, not monitored by human beings<br />
holding stop watches, and subject to<br />
human error, but by the rigid timing<br />
discipline of electricity, offers interest-<br />
ing possibilities.<br />
Arvo Ojala (left) who claims draw and fireas fast as l/lOth second trains stars<br />
like Tab Hunter. Marilyn Monroe and Rory Calhoun have been students.