Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regional conference that will devise new water-conservation projects for the whole area. Such cooperative programs have broken down in the past because of interstate jealousies and political bickering. Future failure could mean that thousands will follow after the owners of California's 1,700-acre San Vicente Ranch, who faced the $10,000 prospect of buying hay for their cattle until next December. Said San Vicente Manager Robert Van Leuven last week: "We're out of business. The ranch has been sold off for subdivision. We're through...
During his 60 years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop...
...first film job in 1924 when, tired of trying to sell baby photographs in Los Angeles, he heard from Montana ranch buddies that you could get $10 just for falling off a horse. In those days they stretched ankle-high wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents...
...shoes. They open with a half-sung patter about how hard they have worked on the act and how glad they are to be there. Then they charge down among the first few tables and shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other too much and Bing's too little. Punching shoulders, mugging at clinkers and bouncing all the while, they...
...cereal fortune matriarch, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ron Miller, after a year with the Rams, took Walt Disney's daughter as his bride and moved into Disneyland. Bud McFadin is the husband of a young lady whose father owns half of West Texas. Bud now runs a dude ranch near Houston. Leon Clarke, the Rams' tall end, wed the heiress to the Beechnut chewing gum, baby food and allied products millions...