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...haydrops were accurate-sometimes too accurate. A rancher who asked that a bale be dropped close to his house was astounded to see it crash through the roof of his front porch...
...frozen bodies of a rancher, his wife and their two children were found in a field near Rockport, Colo. They had left their car, had tried to cut across the prairie, a mile to their home. The rancher's body was huddled protectively over that of his son. His wife sheltered the body of their daughter. Both had wrapped part of their clothing around the children before they died...
...champion liar of the world, for the first time since 1929, was not an American. The Burlington Liars Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...
...that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold out for a sum on which he was able to live for much of his life...
...London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns some wide acres in Arizona) jumped from his car, caught the ornery critter by the bridle, led it to the safety of the bridle path. Then, in true western hero style, he shyly left the scene without even asking the name of the rescued lady...