Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas' wife, Peggy, who had long been trying to get a prefabricated house for the Douglas ranch back in Arizona, finally found just what she wanted, but she couldn't have it. She found it-marked "Made in U.S.A."-on a visit to a housing project in Birmingham, England...
...Frank Dobie is a maverick and a Texan. He can quote Wordsworth or Shelley at length-but he is also a he-man who once ran a 250,000-acre ranch. At the University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building...
Cinemactress Marie McDonald, whose much-publicized contours have made her better known as "The Body," was out a trousseau. (She was shortly going to marry for the second time.) It went up prematurely in flames, in a fire at her ranch...
...books in one: like Miss Sandoz' Old Jules, a character study; like her Slogum House, a family chronicle; like her Capital City, a crankily "liberal" political tract. Small shakes as a novel, it is long on period history, melodrama, local color and wondrously rowdy soldier, sod-hut and ranch-house talk...
...fans, Movie Star Gene Autry is a far-from-rich but happy-go-lucky cowboy who spends most of his time tracking down sharp-dealing businessmen to their dude-ranch lairs. Few of them know that the big star of modern Westerns is also one of the busiest businessmen in the West...