Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAROLINE LOCKHART L Slash Heart Ranch Dryhead, Mont...
...Overwhelming top draw at San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition has been Bubble Dancer Sally Rand's "Nude Ranch" which, in its first eight days of business, grossed $40,000. Rancher Rand thereupon flew East to consider a future job at the New York World's Fair. Instead of a job, she drew a summons. Sharp little Billy Rose had brought suit against her, charging that he originated the title "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Fort Worth Centennial Exposition in 1936, owns all rights...
...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...
...notable influence on architecture (TIME, Jan. 2) or to admit a deficit, San Francisco's fair is still in the competition with its naughty-naughties. Handicappers' current No. 1 choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down South, sounds less bawdy to Western ears than "Barbary Coast," first and logical choice...
...Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...