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Since then, the town has played host to 14 G.O.P. and nine Democratic conventions, not to mention the Pickle Packers, Lawn Bowlers, Button Collectors, Flying Farmers, Moms of America, Amalgamated Poultry Sexers, Cigar Box Manufacturers, Match Cover Collectors, Chihuahua Clubbers, International Twins Association, National Cherry Pie Bakers, National Curled Hair Manufacturers, and the Egg Case Fillers of America...
...married Maria (Rhea) Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, a Houston socialite whose first marriage had occurred before Gable was born: despite his obvious virility, he apparently needed the comfort and security provided by older women. The first Mrs. Gable is now 76, lives alone in Hollywood with her chihuahua, and provided a startling contrast last week when, white-haired and frail, she was photographed looking at a picture of her young husband of years ago. Rhea, now 70, lives alone in Houston...
Breaking the Leash. In Denver, after several people complained that a city firm answered every telephone complaint with, "Mr. Chiwawa, our complaint manager, is tied up in back right now and cannot come to the phone," the Better Business Bureau investigated, found a Chihuahua pup tied up in the firm's back room...
This is a study in the anatomy of courage. The specimens first dehydrated, then dissected by the author are U.S. cavalrymen of the 1916 punitive expedition against Pancho Villa. The setting is the arid hills of Chihuahua, and the enmity of the alien country itself becomes clear in the first sentences: "The land is carrion land ... A man wishes for a sound. It is a country of no answers...
...surly band through the parched badlands. Food and water run short, a chance band of Villistas pins down the party with rifle fire, and Thorn, rather than risk one of his heroes, hands over their horses. The men call it cowardice. The plot becomes as thorny as a Chihuahua cactus until, with the last shreds of his officer's prestige. Thorn flogs the men and the woman toward Cordura. By the time the wanderers, addled by the sun and gut-racked by the alkaline water, reach the hideous end of their journey, Novelist Swarthout has sketched a powerful case...