Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sydney Holland, 56-year-old businessman, sheep rancher, World War I artilleryman, and politician since 1935, forcefully led the attack. "Make your pounds go further," he cried. "We'll give you more for less...
Rising at dawn one brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...
Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
Married. Greer Garson, 40, redhaired, green-eyed cinemactress (Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie),; and Colonel E. E.("Buddy") Fogelson, 48, Texas rancher-millionaire; she for the third time, he for the second; in Santa...