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...break and a final stand. All morning they stamped out blazes flaring up across the line. But at 2 p.m. the fire roared across, raced three miles in 38 minutes, destroyed a fresh 4,000-acre tract of prime timber - 2,000,000 trees-before evening. "This," said one ranger, "is a classic fire. It's the kind the boys will be talking about for the next 20 years...
...monthly Les Temps Modernes: "The 'neo-western' has developed in the direction of ambiguity . . . Under the double influence of 'black' films and psychoanalytical films, westerns have enriched themselves with a clinical description of the half-crazy desperadoes who roam the desert." Examples: Rawhide Ranger (1941) and Coroner Creek...
...between performances, ol' Gene, ever alert to evil deeds on the screen, dozed off in his dressing room. While he snored, two small boys sneaked in, played with his pistols, tramped around in his fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled their hero? Last week the Baptist Pastors Conference of Greater Houston offered a possible explanation in a resolution, proclaiming "their disapproval...
Until World War II, Ranger McCullough's duties were mainly janitorial. He fought fires, built roads and telephone lines, kept a sharp eye out for log rustlers, and was lonely and bored during the long winters. By the early 19405 the ancient European practice of tree farming and sustained-yield forest crops had infiltrated the U.S. consciousness. The colleges were turning out eager young foresters who were more interested in timber management than in sparing the old pine tree...
With the war, and the enormous demands of defense plants, the Government opened up its forests to major lumbering, and Ranger McCullough, like everyone else in the Forest Service, had to learn a new trade...