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He's becoming less of a cartoonish figure, his name lengthened from the familiar Davy and his coonskin cap often left off statuary altogether, but his importance has not diminished in the least. Adults found this stuff terrifyingly incomprehensible, but kids adored it; toy companies took in $50 million a year from sales of Official Captain Video decoder rings, crash helmets, and atomic weapons long before Walt Disney went into the coonskin cap business. TV screens that year showed Gene Autry still riding the range, Lucille Ball as the star of "I Love Lucy," and Parker as "Davy Crockett," a show so popular it spurred sales of 100 million coonskin caps nationwide. |
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