Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyricist Howard Dietz at an estimated weekly salary of $1,250 each. Book for the show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were Grade...
...migrate, herds of sauropods huddled in the dwindling water, died like flies. A dozen or more last survivors perished in one small pool. Clay and sandstone covered the bones. In the course of ages the pool bottom became a hilltop in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. A rancher stumbled on the spot, saw some outcroppings, informed Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
...Governor. Joseph Boyd Poindexter is the son of a California pioneer who became a rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...
Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high...
Married. Evelyn Dewey, 45, psychologist daughter of Philosopher John Dewey; and Granville Moody Smith Jr., 40. Missouri rancher; in Manhattan...