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...struggle is set in the dusty barrens of the Panhandle a few years after the Civil War. An old range-runner (Wiseman), mad with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is really a "red-hide whelp," a papoose the father rescued from a massacre of Kiowas. The hero asks his mother (Gish) if the tale is true. He is shattered when she says it is. Nevertheless, even though he hates Indians as only a man can whose father has been killed...
Married. Anne Baxter, 36, cinemactress (The Ten Commandments); and Randolph Gait, 30, cattle rancher; she for the second time (No. 1: Cinemactor John Hodiak), he for the first; in Honolulu...
Died. Oswaldo Euclydes de Souza Aranha, 65, Brazilian rancher and statesman who gained enough experience from revolutionary clashes of the 1920s to captain the forces that installed Strongman Getulio Vargas as Brazil's President, went on to be Vargas' Ambassador to Washington (1934-38) and Foreign Minister 1938-44), established close relations with the U.S. (though in later years he became disillusioned by U.S. hard-money policies), persuaded other Latin American countries to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis, brought Brazil into the war on the side of the U.S. over the reluctance of his chief and even...
Last week, as his latest shipment of sheep was okayed by federal inspectors, U.S. sheep raisers called for quotas, higher tariffs, or anything else that would stop the shipments. Said rival California Rancher Clay Broadbent: "Either we stop the Australian sheep-or regulate the flow of them-or it will mean the end of the American sheep industry...
Delfino agreed. "The growers are right. In five years, I do not think that there will be a sheep industry in the U.S. With rising land values and labor costs, it is pretty tough for a rancher to raise a sheep and make much over $1.50 on it." Delfino, on the other hand, can buy Australian sheep for $5.50 or less each, net $3 per head minimum when he sells them...