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You're a question-asker. Though your education included high school, you feel it wasn't quite enough, try to make up for it by collecting information. You read the papers from cover to cover and remember what you've read. You tackle anyone who's an authority — senators, lawyers, clergymen, entertainers and even press agents. As a result, you're a firstclass conversationalist. But you prefer to listen — which makes you a pleasant rarity. Aside from senators and press agents, you usually associate with hosses. You raise them at your Melody Ranch, where the patio was omitted in favor of a tanbark riding ring. Though you'd like to exercise and train your hosses yourself, you haven't time, so pro-trainer John Agee, ex-Tom Mix and Ringling circus, does it. Baseball gives your hosses a run for their money. Remember when you hoped to be a professional ball player? You even made a semi-pro team in the Southwest and, today, you follow news of the diamond with great interest. You were called on, one day, to say a few words at a sports writers' dinner, and the scribes — who expected to hear a Hollywood cowboy talk about his movies — were taken aback when you analyzed the current baseball season, using the correct language. You play golf but you're no whiz. You belong to the Lakeside Country Club — as do Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and a feller named Roy Rogers. It's at Lakeside that you must swap those highheeled boots for regular golf shoes. Entertaining at home is apt to spell barbecue. Followed by bridge, or, more recently, Canasta. Or, you run off a film on the projector in the living room. You always precede such a program with a biographical short of Will Rogers — no matter how many times the audience has seen it, previously. After all, you feel, it was Will who first encouraged you to become a professional entertainer — and he's still your idea of the greatest. You fly, of course. You first learned via a monocoupe, which you bought in 1936. Your present ship, a twin-engined Beechcraft, gets some 400 hours' use a year. You hold a commercial pilot's rating, use staff-pilot Herb Green only to spell you on long trips. Jim Clark also works in the same capacity, as well as keeping the big silver N80395 in firstclass shape. You and Ina Mae own a new, white brick home in North Hollywood. It was finished in 1949, and is set on a secluded four-and-a-half acre plot arranged on three levels — the lower to be a swimming pool and bathhouse, when finished. The house sits on the middle level, plus garage and barbecue pit. Stables, now abuilding, are on the upper level. In addition, you and Ina Mae own the 290-acre Melody Ranch. It's about an hour's drive from Hollywood, in the San Fernando Valley. You raise hosses, fruit and walnuts — you can say nuts to worries when you're holed-up here. Your movie career began at Republic in 1934, with a bit in a Ken Maynard movie, "In Old Santa Fe." Your public took root almost immediately and, a mere year later, you were starred in the first musical Western, "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds." You stayed with Republic until 1946, then a year later, formed your own company (Gene Autry Productions) , moved it over to Columbia Pictures. From 1937 to 1942, when you entered the Army Air Forces, you were rated top box-office Western star by the nation's movie exhibitors. In 1940, you were the first cowboy to break into the first ten on Fame's poll of box-office ratings on an industry-wide basis. Are you aware that exhibitors fondly refer to you as "The Mortgage Lifter?" One of your earliest record successes was "Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine." This was for the old American Record Co., later taken over by Columbia Records. In the three-month Christmas sales' period of 1949, your "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" sold over a million copies, a fitting embellishment for your 21st year as a recording artist. Since 1940, you've been on the CBS air every Saturday at 8:00, EST or EDT, with the Melody Ranch program. An Autry action drama, it includes humor and songs, is officially rated among the top twenty — often in the top ten. In 1950, you started production on a series of half-hour action films, made especially for TV, with extra-strong lighting, etc. So, with movies, TV, radio and recording, you're the only top star in the entertainment field who's appearing simultaneously in all four mediums. You were in the Army Air Forces for three-and-a-half years, starting in 1942. You didn't try to wangle a commission, you enlisted, won your wings and flew as Flight Officer with the Air Transport Command, ferrying planes, cargo and supplies to India, North Africa and Burma. As a top public figure, you're bound to be maligned. You'll be called a drugstore cowboy — despite the fact that you were brought up on your dad's ranch. They'll say that you can't ride — even though you've been in the saddle since you were a kid. People will insist that you're difficult whenever you fight for more money or a better contract. Yet, the same business associates have been with you for 10 years and your Columbia Records contract has existed for 20 years as a mere handshake with Art Satherly. You've been labeled dull because you're not flamboyant or glib. Modesty, however, is appreciated by most people, and no one can say you haven't a good sense of humor. Take the time you were being ribbed by Arthur Godfrey on his program. Said Arthur: "Yes sir! That Beechnut is a swell chew!" [Gene's sponsor is Wrigley's.) "I don't smoke," answered Gene, "but my pals tell me that Luckies sure are smooth." Godfrey worked overtime, that day, on his Chesterfield commercia' All detractors aside, if you're Gftf Autry — or only a reasonable facs'im thereof — you're a very remarkable