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...victor, the defeated candidate was quietly moving into the background. Last week, accompanied by Campaign Manager Wilson Wyatt and Administrative Assistant Carl McGowan and their wives, Adlai Stevenson left Springfield in a private plane and flew off to Tucson, Ariz. Stevenson's old friend Dick Jenkins, a rancher, greeted them at the airport; within a few minutes the party was driving south through the desert to Jenkins' La Osa ranch on the Mexican border...
...target, dead or alive, seemed to be fair game. One rancher near Glenwood Springs, hoping to protect a pet doe and her twin fawns, watched helplessly as a carload of hunters, guns blazing, killed the fawns and wounded the doe. Two days later he found the doe dead. The indignant rancher braced his dead pet up near the roadside, then sat back and waited to see what would happen. He did not have to wait long...
Moments later, four hunters drove up, jumped out and opened fire from the road. The fusillade ripped through the already dead deer. But just to make sure, the hunters rushed over and cut its throat. They ran when the rancher approached. Again the rancher propped up the carcass. Two more hunters approached, shot the dead deer and made off with the riddled remains before the rancher could get close enough to stop them...
...Newton and his sidekick as phony experts; it also dug up enough evidence to arrest Newton and a man the paper said was his Dr. Gee, Leo Ge Bauer, operator of a small electrical manufacturing shop in Phoenix, Ariz. The charge: Newton and Ge Bauer had fleeced a wealthy rancher out of $34,000 with another "scientific" discovery, a machine that could locate oil or water underground...
Dutch Bobs. "He's just the kind of guy who has to lead." says Soapy's admiring younger brother Hank, now a Republican district committeeman and rancher in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "Soapy was president of the choir at St. Paul's in Detroit. He used to kick me out all the time. I made the kids laugh and Soapy would run me out. Luckily I had pull: father was a vestryman and he would get me back in." Father Henry P. Williams built up a comfortable income in the pickle business and in Detroit real estate. Mother...