Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look good. It takes some of Hollywood's silkiest purses and, without half trying, promptly and efficiently turns them into sow's ears. It has a beautiful star (Ava Gardner), yet somehow manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant...
Naturally, the dumping has caused prices to crash. Last week choice calves brought 16? a Ib. in Dallas (compared to 30? a year ago), and some cows sold for as little as 5? a Ib. (the alltime low in the great depression: 3?). Said Cleve Littlepage, a Tahoma, Texas rancher one day last week: "I had a little calf born on my place this morning. A month ago that calf would have been worth $35. maybe $40. I've offered it to ten men free and they all turned it down...
...Senator Is Born. Lyndon Johnson was born and bred to politics. His grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Indian fighter and cattleman, and his father, Sam Ealy Jr., a backslapping rancher and real-estate man, were both members of the Texas legislature. When Lyndon was born, in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees along the banks of the Pedernales River, grandfather Sam rushed out to tell the neighbors: "A United States Senator's been born today...
Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...
...tale grew even more incredible as he told it: a rich old rancher named Jimmy C. Henderson, who is doing 50 years for shooting his common-law wife, had befriended Franks in prison and had given.the boy a total of $19,000 to "help him go straight." Checking proved that the whole story was good as gold, and that Franks had already dribbled away about $6,000 of the money. (Sample investment: a big red & white teddy bear for his ninth-grade bride...