Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said, "it's all right with me." The assistant principal wound up by taking her anyway...
...Life. In Los Angeles, Harry Hetzler insisted to police that it was impossible for his car to have been stolen because 1) it was parked just outside, 2) his dog was in it and would have barked, and 3) Ranch Hand Carl Thomas would have heard the noise and called him; the police patiently explained to Hetzler that 1) the car was in Yuma, Ariz., 2) the dog was still in it but sitting quietly, and 3) Ranch Hand Thomas had been arrested as the thief...
Lone Star, Vice President George Anderson, is sitting out his contract on an Arizona ranch, writing a history of the year-old company.) But, said Germany, she stood to make at least $2,000,000 and possibly $3,500,000 on the deal...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...
...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...