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Unorthodox Style. Part Indian, raven-haired Kenny McLean busted his first bronc-and took his first fall-at eleven on his father's cattle ranch in tiny (pop. 500) Okanagan Falls, B.C. "There wasn't much to do in 'Okay Falls' except hunt and fish,", Kenny explains, "so my brother and I built a chute and started riding." A natural athlete with superb coordination and balance, Kenny quickly learned to keep his feet loose in the stirrups, developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise...
After the dinner (including Manitoba buffalo steak, supreme of prairie chicken, rõti, Okanagan fruit compote, Inglenook-Traminer white wine), Mike Pearson toasted the President of the U.S.; Actor George Murphy responded with a toast to the King. Shortly after midnight, everyone went home...
Fantastic monsters unknown to natural science seem to have a predilection for the waters of British Columbia. Thence, with almost convincing regularity, have come tales of Okanagan Lake's "Ogopogo"-a mighty serpent "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog" (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). And thence last week came two descriptions of a phantasmagoric sea serpent big enough to dwarf the 30-foot Ogopogo...
...Ooooh! The Ogopogo!" cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...
Some three years ago the Vancouver Board of Trade was on tour through the Okanagan Valley and at the pretty city of Vernon the delegates were guests of Vernon Rotarians at luncheon. The musical programme included a song "I'm looking for the Ogopogo" which has a swinging chorus and was originally introduced in a London musical show. We delegates picked up the song and decided that as we were in the Okanagan we might as well "look for the Ogopogo." The name became popular and has spread all over the world. There are various theories...