Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Errett-Lobban Cord's emergence as a Nevada politician, TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch flew into Reno, got the onetime auto tycoon's consent to a half-hour interview. But the meeting continued 5½ hours because Cord, now an Esmeralda County rancher, discovered that McCulloch had been raised on a ranch in Nevada's Lyon County. For what Returning Native McCulloch learned, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The New-Model Cord...
Married. Usher L. Burdick, 79, Republican Congressman from North Dakota for 17 years, lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books; and Jean Rodgers, thirtyish, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington...
...best West Coast nightclubs. In 1923, at 30, he married Jeannette Demont, 18, whom he had met in Los Angeles. Three years later, after the birth of his first son, George Franklin Getty II, they were divorced in Mexico. Next year Paul married Allene Ashby, 17, a Texas rancher's daughter and excellent horsewoman...
...earlier days of air travel, the airlines' best customer was the U.S. businessman to whom flying meant time, and time money. Today, like Idaho Rancher-Financier R. J. Simplot (who is aloft 800 hours each year), businessmen are finding an even better way to save time and make money: they use a growing fleet of private planes of every size and shape. For a description of the boom and what it means to the U.S. light-plane industry, see BUSINESS, Private Planes on the Rise...
...start over," said his wife Manon. "If your heart's set on farming, you go right ahead." Every month he sent his Texas banker a $22 installment to pay off his Chevy loan. The cotton-gin owners liked him and staked him, and Roberts surged ahead. Today Cotton Rancher Roberts, with 7,000 acres, half owned, half leased, lives with his wife and two daughters in a $100,000 ranch home near McFarland, has a spread of comforts as wide as his cotton yield: a color TV set, 40-ft. swimming pool, three Cadillacs and a Buick, an estimated...