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...boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom...
...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...
...night last week these same five players stood under a spotlight in the middle of the same rink, while adoring home-towners cheered wildly. It was the Rangers' 400th game. These charter members had stuck together from the start, had helped win the Stanley Cup twice, had put the team into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond...
...Many had come from miles away to hear Baritone John Charles Thomas. In intermission there was to be a special celebration. On request he would sing "Home on the Range'' and when he finished he would be presented with a badge and the title of honorary Texas ranger...
Next you have the temerity to say that "the home economists and the (forest) rangers have not intruded themselves into liberal arts colleges." Without casting any aspersions upon Benningten or Dartmouth, I can point out that Harvard gives a course on "The Ethics of the Family," and that there is an Arnold Arboretum in Boston, and a Harvard Forest in Petersham. Furthermore, a graduate can become not merely a "ranger" but a "Doctor of Forestry...