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...Finest Goddam Articles." Finally, Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall produced the truth. According to Newhall, it was not fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...
...Meeker, Colo., Minnewa Bell Roosevelt, 48, fourth wife of Local Rancher Elliott Roosevelt, 49, sued him for divorce on the ground of mental cruelty...
...queen of the soap operas, oldest sudser on the air (by three weeks over Ma Perkins), veteran of no husbands but of romances with every sort of fellow from handsome billionaires and hypnotists to psychotics and smooth-talking thugs, cause of a movie tycoon's suicide, a rancher's self-exile to a banana republic, once heard by 4,000,000 listeners on 203 CBS affiliate stations; of hardening of the kilocycles (despite respectable ratings); in Manhattan...
...unionizing the auto industry. Covering 50,000 miles in twelve months as he motored up and down the valley, Smith set up leadership-training classes in seven towns, gradually enlisted a hard core of unionists. Then he got a big break from an unexpected quarter: a wealthy Republican rancher named Fred Van Dyke. While running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1958, Van Dyke was shocked by what he found out about the life of the farm workers. He made an unwritten deal with Smith's new union to harvest his grape crop for $1.25 an hour plus fringe benefits...
...that the Western hero can hold his own with the Homeric. Arch Eastmere, the tall, silent type home from a couple of seasons of dark adventure in the South, is a mean hand with a hair-trigger .45. He makes a natural enough Achilles. Percy Randal, the grey old rancher, proud of his sons and his stock-rich kingdom, is clearly Priam. Golden-haired Ellen Lacy, wife of one of Randal's younger rivals, may be no match for Helen, but in the woman-starved region around the Broken S, her barren beauty is "the lodestar for this small...