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...caused by 1) a mixup by the Department of Agriculture and 2) a smart trick by Dealer Owen. Last May, the Department of Agriculture wired all big dealers that it wanted to buy mules for resale to Mexico. They were needed to replace oxen exterminated in Mexico's hoof-&-mouth epizootic. The dealers bought up 8,000 mules, signed contracts to buy 12,000 more. But when they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have to consult with Mexican officials over what...
Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks...
...about his route. He and his drivers fought off both Indians and rustlers. Sometimes floods held up the mule drove for months. Sometimes mules went lame crossing the rocky outcroppings in northeastern Bolivia. When that happened, the troop would halt while the animals were roped, thrown, and treated to hoof repairs. In the autumn of 1946, they were still in Trinidad, Bolivia, 400 miles from their goal...
Hampered by the absence of new ideas, the success of current Westerns can only be judged on the basis of actor appeal, the magnitude of the technicolor spectacle, number of hoof-beats per square actor. "California" fails miserably on the first two counts and barely comes within minimum standards on the last. Where the hero generally carries the plot on his godlike shoulders and livens the dialogue with sardonic humor, a miscast Ray Milland almost appears to be a slightly paunchy heel...
...woods for the frolic like ants out of an old log when t'other end's afire. [Then] an old Hardshell preacher* come a-walkin in out of nowhar in the dark, with his mouth mortised into his face in a shape like a mule's hoof, heels down. . . . Like all Hardshells, he was dead agin women and lovely sounds and motions and dancin and cussin and kissin. [But] the whiskey part of the frolic he had nothin agin...