Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraged by its morning supremacy, the Times invaded the afternoon field in 1948 by founding the tabloid Mirror. The odds on survival seemed good. The Chandlers control a wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily...
...Second Time Around, with Director Vincent Sherman to spur her flair for foolery, Debbie corrals a herd of yaks in what might otherwise have proved just one more way-in western. She plays a young "widder lady" from back East who arrives in Arizona, signs on as a ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine-but in style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls...
Time was when any Hollywood name worthy of a headline always got her divorce in Nevada-preferably Reno. The divorce mills there were the fastest in the nation. A divorce-bound glamour puss had only to take up "residence" for six weeks at a guest ranch and gaming table. But in recent years, Nevada's divorce rate has fallen consistently. In fact, there has been such a drop in tabloid-fodder divorces that the New York Daily News has decided to close down its Reno bureau...
Some leaders of the new wave: ∙DOLORES WETTACH is lush, Lorenesque, and doubly foreign (her father is Swiss, her mother Swedish); she moved at the age of five from Switzerland to Flushing, N.Y., where her father set up a mink ranch. Now about 24 ("You learn not to be too exact"), Dolores was elected Miss Vermont in the 1956 Miss Universe contest, graduated in 1957 from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in nursing. While she was working as a nurse at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a sharp-eyed photographer saw beyond her heavy oxfords, asked...
Back at the ranch in Texas, the Murchisons were tight-lipped-but keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial world buzzed with talk that the Murchisons expected Kirby to launch a new proxy war for control of Alleghany and that the brothers planned to use the Gulf Life proceeds to pay off the debts they had incurred in the first Alleghany battle so that they could negotiate new loans...