Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiery, barrel-chested John Gutzon de La Mothe Borglum, the Mount Rushmore Memorial had been the crowning fight of a fighting career. Born nearly 70 years ago of Danish immigrant parents on an Idaho ranch, Borglum started out by modeling mud figures as a child on the banks of a nearby irrigation canal. When priests at a Catholic boarding school in Kansas tried to get him to draw saints and madonnas, he ran away to San Francisco to study, went on to Paris, where he worked under famed Sculptor Auguste Rodin. Back in the U. S. he bounded with bull...
Hialeah customers who picked the Widener Cup winner didn't win as much as lucky Santa Anitans, but they got a better race for their money. At 16-to-1 ($34.60 for a $2 ticket) Circle M Ranch's Big Pebble, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Moore, socialite ranchers from Sheridan, Wyo., beat his stablemate. Get Off, by a head after tailing the field most of the way. For their owners, the pair won $60,000. Back in fourth place, a very tired horse, was Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, 1940's three-year...
...Although he is at home there, the range was never his profession. His father, Charles Henry Cooper, was a lawyer of Bedfordshire, England, who in 1886 moved to the U. S. and the raucous gold town of Helena, Mont. There he married a local girl, acquired a small cattle ranch, but spent most of his time at law and politics which eventually brought him a justiceship of the Montana Supreme Court...
...salad course appeared. It was caviar--served in bowls! The quantity of the rare dish never fazed him, but to eat caviar as a salad course was verging on the barbaric. Mores Americanos curdled his Russian taste on one other occasion, when his son started reading such magazines as Ranch Romances, The Shadow and Terror Tales. The Professor became quite worried. In Russia, Tolstoi was the only drugstore literature. Could his child be moronic...
...this fabulous feat, the owners of Santa Anita last week honored the Biscuit. From the lush meadows of Owner Howard's ranch, they coaxed the retired champion, father of seven and 80 pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...