Corky: Talking of cool surfers, the marshal from ‘Gunsmoke’ was one of them

One of the coolest dudes that I had the pleasure to hang out with quite a bit was James Arness.
He was the dude who played Marshal Matt Dillon on the popular television show “Gunsmoke.”  I know a lot of you are not old enough to remember that show, but it ran for 20 years and Jim, as he went by to his friends, was quite a big star.
Once you got to know him though, it was easy to forget how famous he was due to the fact that he was actually one of the more down-to-earth people yo