Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...
Before he got the job, Perkins never thought much about being a Housemaster. Born 52 years ago this month at Westwood, Mass., into a family of distinctly proper Bostonians, he prepped at Milton Academy, graduating in 1918. He then spent a year on a ranch (developing into an incredibly inept cowboy, he says) before entering Harvard with the Class of 1923. He captained the third 150-pound crew in College history during his senior year and got his degree cum laude in History and Literature. He enrolled in the Law School, but found law so little to his liking that...
...Class of the Week: Colorado A & M's two-day course in dude-ranching-including studies in everything from "Dining Decoration, Western Style" to "HorseShoeing, Dude-Ranch Style...
Morally uplifted by his love for Susan, Audie eventually 1) annihilates a group of real-estate operators who are trying to grab the ranch of Susan's father (Paul Kelly), 2) rounds up Kelly's cattle and drives them to market against obstacles, natural and otherwise, 3) clinches with Susan in a Technicolor fadeout. In its resolutely conventional blend of sagebrush and six-shooters, Gunsmoke manages not to violate in any detail the venerable horse-opera formula established by The Great Train Robbery 50 years...
...ranch in Pasadena, Calif.-where he has lived off & on since 1911-Paul Hoffman spent a weekend mulling over a big problem. The trustees of the $500 million Ford Foundation, of which he was president, had decided that foundation headquarters should be moved from Pasadena to Manhattan, to be closer to the center of most foundation enterprises...