Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hart's only child, William Jr., who lost a fight to be made guardian of his father's estate just before the old cowboy star died, was disinherited by the will; most of the estate's $1 million will be used to run the California ranch as a public park. Meanwhile, the public turned out by the thousand for a full-fashioned Hollywood funeral. The organist played Twilight on the Trail, and Crooner Rudy Vallee sang sad songs...
...plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...
...miles away, had nearly twice its normal radioactivity. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey noted a similar phenomenon at Tucson, Ariz. But the Eastman Kodak Co. was the first to trace, and announce, the actual spread of the deadly, dusty mushroom which sprouted above MacDonald's ranch that July...
...Jones was a big piece of Chicago. Besides a ranch in Mexico, a villa on the Riviera and an Illinois estate, he owned two mansions, a dairy, a variety store and three hotels in Chicago...
...retired from the Met in 1932, later divorced her Austrian baron, Leopold von Popper, and married Hollywood Producer Winfield R. Sheehan (who died last July). During the war she quartered G.I.s in her castle near Salzburg, and turned her California ranch into a free convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Since a Carnegie Hall concert in 1937, she has sung mostly on the West Coast...