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...five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...road has been a rocky one for Waller, 58, who had his private life dragged into the spotlight in 1997 when he left his wife for a blond thirtysomething ranch hand. Even more worrying to loyal Waller fans, Warner Books, which made a mint on Bridges, rejected the sequel, which instead will be published next week by a small Texas press. That's like Paramount passing on Titanic...
...when I showed up at Raratu Lodge, near Havelock North on North Island, ready to get down to the ranch and shear some sheep, proprietor Pete Hill was quietly amused. Forget New Zealand's shepherding heritage?nothing could get him to herd sheep, even if he had any. "Field lice," as he called them, were far too stupid and too prone to disease. Seeing my city slicker's crushed expression, he did offer me the chance to douse a few of his dairy cows with a de-worming bath, but the intermittent late summer showers ruled that...
...Pressure on the Bush administration to intervene more forcefully - and to consider some form of international security presence - will continue to grow in the coming weeks, not least when Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah visits the President's ranch in Crawford next Thursday. Because right now it may take no more than a single suicide bomber in an Israeli city to set off a chain of events that plunges the region into chaos...
...read no negative message into the Egyptian president's begging off. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is meeting with President Bush Wednesday, and is expected to register Arab disappointment with the administration's peace efforts so far. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is expected at the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas next week, and the outcome of that encounter will be a crucial indicator of the state of relations between the U.S. and its moderate Arab allies...