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Married. Evelyn Dewey, 45, psychologist daughter of Philosopher John Dewey; and Granville Moody Smith Jr., 40. Missouri rancher; in Manhattan...
...Reggie McNamara, "Iron Man" of the sport, the Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan last week was his tooth. A friendly, mild-mannered man with a deep scar in his right cheek, McNamara is the son of a New South Wales sheep-rancher. He and his 13 brothers and sisters all learned to ride on the same bicycle. Reggie alone took the sport seriously. He shot kangaroos, sold their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken...
...Author Will James, traces a mustang's career in sentimental detail. In this unusual Western, the horse is the protagonist, the cowboy deus ex machina to save him from the glue-factory in the end. Even the love interest centres on Smoky. Critical of the first sketches the rancher's arty daughter makes of his horse, the cowboy finally succumbs when she produces a good statue...
...backlot pastime. Then Editor Foster decided to tell the world about it-chiefly because he wanted to boom the arms & ammunition business, get more advertising into his magazines. In February 1926 he launched a nation-wide promotional campaign, offered $100 for a name. The money went to a Montana rancher's wife who suggested "skeet," an obsolete word, probably Scandinavian, meaning "to shoot...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...