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...Passed a bill for payment of $2,079 to a mink rancher near Roy, Wash., because low-flying military aircraft from Gray Field so upset mother minks that they destroyed their young...
...dramatic level, "The Survivors" reveals little that could be classed as sound theater, much less as entertaining or inspiring theater. The play takes place in a small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge...
...Famous Men. A rancher insisted on speaking to the general, to tell him Billy was a great guy. Billy explained that he decided to get in touch with his brother only because he would soon be 65, and it would look bad "if Pat Hurley's brother turned up on the old age pension." Why hadn't he written before? Said Billy: "My brother is a famous man, and I am nothing...
...qualifications. He advertised for new faculty members, got hundreds of letters, signed on 13 Harvard Ph.Ds. When the Board of Regents tried to hand-pick a dean for the new law school, Wernette began investigating him, too. Nominee Victor E. Kleven was the son-in-law of wealthy Sheep Rancher Jose Ortiz y Pino, who controls a lot of Spanish votes. But Wernette found that Kleven had never received several of the university degrees he claimed, had resigned from the California bar in the face of disciplinary action, and had never been admitted to the New Mexico bar. Kleven resigned...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...