Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely Kenya ranch house some 60 miles north of Nairobi, Mrs. Dorothy Raynes-Simson, a cattle rancher, sat chatting with her partner, Kitty Hesselburger. There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. One man seized Mrs. Hesselburger by the throat, bent her across a chair; the rest set upon Mrs. Raynes-Simson, who grabbed her revolver, a handbag necessity for most Kenya white women these days, and blazed away. She shot two men dead...
...recent years, big city exhibitionists, bent on suicide, headlines, or both, have taken to balancing high on window ledges while threatening to jump to the crowd-jammed streets below. It remained for a wealthy young Texas cattle rancher named Ollie William Cox to perform the same tragic stunt in an airplane...
...Night. Though some retail prices last week were down a little from last year (about $300 on a $5,000 coat), Utah's Mink Rancher David W. Henderson, president of the National Board of Fur Farm Organizations, thought the market was off to a good start. One fillip came from an unexpected source. Said Henderson, whose beady-eyed little Topaze breeders (see cut) are worth up to $600 apiece: "If anything, the Washington mink scandals helped the market by bringing the idea of mink coats more & more before the public." In Chicago,, the Miller Fur Co. was doing...
...most mink-hunting women have little idea of how or where the coats come from. At a mink ranch not long ago, a woman visitor asked: "How many times a year do you pelt the animals?" Answered the scornful rancher, deadpan: "Well, we used to pelt twice a year, but it was hard on the minks, so we cut it down to once...
This week, No. 33 trotted on to the field for his final fling. Some 22,000 fans were in the stands as Baugh ran through a series of downs, spent half an hour after the game signing autographs. Now a successful rancher with 6,355 acres in Rotan, Texas-thanks to some $300,000 earned in salaries and endorsements ("half went to Texas, half to taxes")-Sammy Baugh was altogether ready to call it quits after 16 years, the longest playing career in N.F.L. history...