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...movie gives the customers plenty of violence; Hero Lancaster's brawls net him a badly mauled head, a knife gash in the side, a bullet in the arm. But much of the story is fitted neatly into a weeks-long cattle roundup over vast stretches of Technicolored country. In the spirit of 1948's excellent Red River, if not with the same scope and skill, Vengeance Valley works diligently to show what a big job a roundup is, and just how the cowpunchers...
This letter, the fortieth we have received on the subject, arrived after our roundup of "Radcliffe Mother" letters was printed. It is typical of the whole lot, and, judging by information we have received from Washington, is an example of one type of opinion which is now prevalent in regard to the proposed Universal Military Service plan...
...roundup report on civilian losses, the South Korean government announced a total of 434,666 casualties among noncombatants-men, women & children. The breakdown...
...bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made out to an individual cattleman, for his herd of more than 2,000 catte sold at Denver's livestock market. It was Graves's last roundup and the biggest deal in his big-dealing career...
Adapter Faith thinks he knows why Marie Antoinette's old song has done so well. Analyzing dozens of such popular favorites as The Last Roundup and Don't Fence Me In, he has concluded that "practically all of them are made up of the same three chords: tonic, dominant and subdominant. People like to hear those chords whether they know what they are or not. The little French tune had the chords. The rest was easy...