Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...
Like hens in a gathering thunderstorm, the men of good will hoped that somehow a miracle would avert a deluge of chaos, anarchy and civil war. Only the little man remained calm. U.S. Correspondent A. T. Steele, visiting his retreat at Sevagram last week, described it as "a dude ranch, a Father Divine 'heaven,' a Mennonite colony, a collective farm and an agricultural station, with everybody a vegetarian." There Mohandas K. Gandhi relaxed, listened to his inner voice, took abdominal mudbaths to husband his waning strength...
...Westerners are so unpatriotic as to waste rubber and gas motoring to Yellowstone to feed the bears. Western dude ranches and Eastern roadside inns are whistling in the dark. The long stays, the long trips-to Mexico and Canada, for instance-take more time than most U.S. people have in 1942. Many of the 1,095,000 schoolteachers who did much of the nation's summer traveling have been asked to stay at home and take courses in civilian defense. U.S. businessmen are either too busy or too broke...
...Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...
Mickey the Dude Heads Group...