Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From a ranch in California's Romero Canyon last week, dark-haired, nine-year-old Marylynn Winkler watched the flight of a glider-towing plane. Suddenly the plane seemed to "break up in mid-air." Marylynn hurried over five miles of mountain and streams, found an injured Army sergeant and private. (Two others were dead.) In the mountain wilderness, Marylynn built a fire to keep the soldiers warm, stood by for five hours until the ambulance arrived. Then she found sapling poles for stretchers. Said Marylynn: "I just couldn't leave them alone and hurt like that." Said...
...first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...
...woodsman, horseman and flyer who promoted skiing as a Western sport, Tresidder knows craggy Yosemite like his back yard. As a Stanford trustee since 1939, he has devoted the same lusty, detailed attention to "the Farm" (Stanford's name for its magnificent campus, once a horse-breeding ranch...
...such youngster is beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...
Something for the Boys tells of three uninhibited cousins (Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence, Allen Jenkins) who inherit a Texas ranch next door to Kelly Field and set up a boardinghouse for soldiers' wives. In their spare time they also make defense gadgets out of carborundum. The hostelry turns into a scandal, and Actress Merman, by getting some carborundum in her teeth, turns into a radio receiving set. After that nothing even tries to make sense...