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Luckey, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman, had backed the Truman campaign in California almost singlehanded, had spent some $10,000 to run it. Since the campaign, he has been Harry Truman's fair-haired boy in California. Eyeing his Elks tooth, big Stetson and cowboy boots, the President had said: "Glad to see you wearing those [pointed] boots, George. They'll be good for kicking some of those fellows...
...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...
...convention floor, breeders buzzed about an export deal that made 1949 look even more promising. Just a few days before, on his first trip to Canada, a Chilean cattleman named José Barros had agreed to pay Hays Ltd., Canada's largest exporter of Holsteins to the south, a whopping $79,340 for 15 purebreds, including a $15,000 bull named Sonniwilk Sovereign...
...getting a horse away to a fast start. It is a trick he learned down in Texas. At twelve, Ping Picou began riding Quarter horse races on Sunday, where he learned not to get left at the post. He rode about 200 races in two years, before a cattleman, Felix De Mary, gave him a chance to become a real jockey...
...River is a yarn about the first cattle drive over the Chisholm Trail, from deep Texas into Abilene, Kans., soon after the Civil War. It is also the story of the fierce character duel which develops, along the way, between the tyrannical boss cattleman (John Wayne) and his intransigent foster son (Montgomery Clift). Mr. Clift takes time out for a little romance with a "dancing girl"*(Joanne Dru), but essentially this is a movie about...