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...captain in the Army Air Corps Reserve, causing an outbreak of "I Want To Be a Captain Too" clubs, spent the war flying photo-reconnaissance missions. During his remarkably checkered business career, he has been a news commentator in Minneapolis, a Christmas-tree grower in New York, a rancher in Colorado, and a businessman in Havana. He is now married to wife No. 5, Phoenix Socialite Patricia Whitehead, whom...
...five years, Bonanza stars Lome Greene as a late 19th century Nevada rancher who talks softly and with psychiatric insight while combating, say, a half-breed horse thief, who was the heavy in this week's show. The dialogue uses pithy aphorisms ("When you are only half of something, you are really half of nothing"), which eventually works its way toward a modern message: "Never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone." The episodes are surprisefully plotted and seek variety in the bizarre: next week a knight in armor rides out the purple sage and rams...
...Spanish Dancer Mary Moore cracked a bull whip over his head. When Star Attraction Eddie Fisher got fouled up in his microphone while crooning his way among the tables, it was Lyndon who rushed to the rescue and untangled him. Then, just in case someone might think that Rancher Johnson had gone too citified in his ways, the show wound up with a demonstration of sheepherding by a band of hill-country collies...
...Little Brother." Bom March 23, 1918, in Jolly, Texas, Walter Jenkins was the youngest of six children of a farmer. He grew up in nearby Wichita Falls. "Walter was the baby of the family, and they all doted on him," recalls Mrs. Macon Boddy, a rancher's wife who went to high school with Jenkins and used to date his older brother Bill, a veteran FBI agent now stationed in Amarillo, Texas. "We called him 'Little Brother.' He was a wonderful person, and a sort of child genius in school...
...pilots were pros-airline captains, crop dusters, Air Force officers-shooting at $45,000 in prize money for the nine events. The rest were out for kicks. "I know it sounds ridiculous, but my bathtub at home is bigger than this plane," sighed Clyde Parsons, a 215-lb. California rancher who won a midget-class race by averaging 147 m.p.h. around a 21-mile course in a plane he had painstakingly built in his own garage...