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...Bravados (20th Century-Fox) is a western that attempts to draw a useful moral, but it is just too goldurn slow (98 minutes) on the draw. The hero (Gregory Peck) is a ranchman who hunts down and kills three men for the rape and murder of his wife, only to discover that the men did not commit the crime. To make matters worse, the killings have made him a hero to the whole district...
Died. Joseph Gordon Coates, 64, one time Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28); in Wellington, N.Z. Minister of Armed Forces & War Coordination since last July, rangy Ranchman Coates in 30 years of public life had administered home affairs, foreign affairs, courts, customs, rails, mails...
Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped...
...Ranchman Gill's horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...