Word: frontiersman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaguar in a Cage. Despite his cattle wealth, Lohman lives like a frontiersman. His ranch house is surrounded by a palm-log stockade, has no running water, no plumbing. Screening for the bedrooms is his one concession to comfort in the mosquito-infested Chaco...
Built-in Drugstore. Virginia-born Dr. Still was a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded frontiersman who studied the art of healing with his father, a medical missionary among the Shawnee Indians. In 1864, Still lost three children in an epidemic of spinal meningitis. The shock crystallized his dissatisfaction with current medical methods. After ten years of horse-and-saddlebag practice in Missouri, Still proclaimed his faith...
...Venezuela's 4,200,000 people, 90% live close to the Caribbean coast. They prefer the mild climate, the cities' culture and the wealth from oil to a frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier...
...soldier, trained in Indian fighting, who commanded his troops "in a straw hat, checked gingham coat and a pair of blue trousers without braid ... a plain American leading a lot of other plain Americans." An able but limited general, his appeal was that of a rustic hero, a fighting frontiersman...
...Buffalo Bill," starring Maureen O'Hara, Joel McCrea, and Linda Darnell is the feature this week. It traces the life of "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a frontiersman, trapper, and Indian scout, and depicts his final rise to fame as the Buffalo Bill of the wild west show. There will be shows today at 1800 for the Naval Training Schools and at 2030 for the staff; also tomorrow and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The movies are not continuous...