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...Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people, rates the race-tracky smell of Absorbine Jr. (used to rub down horses) higher than My Sin. Because well-heeled horse and dog owners like to have portraits of their pets on their mantelpieces, Sculptress Harrah charges much higher prices than the average bookend and paper weight animal sculptor, gets $200 for a bronze dog, $700 up for a bronze horse. For four years...
...straightforward-not to say, brutally frank-as its title, "The Westerner" sticks up to its neck in the woolly, daredevil days of the frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...
...square model of a mythical community called "Broadacres." "A new housing for civilization," Broadacres is Wright's answer to the problem of the crowded machine-age city. In Broadacres, homes, factories, office and municipal buildings are separated by wide park spaces planted with lawns and trees. Its farms rub elbows with its town hall. Its warehouses are part of its underground railway system...
...year defined Brazil's three possible courses as follows: "1) Absolute understanding with the totalitarians; 2) economic understanding with them and political identification with formal democracy; 3) economic understanding and political identification with democracy." Preferred was the third-"if it is possible." The great and all-important economic rub to Course 3 is that coffee is the only thing Brazil exports that the U. S. wants, whereas the Germans want many raw materials, including cotton, from Brazil in exchange for her manufactured goods...
announced development of a process by which it expected to make butadiene rub ber from butane for only 20? a pound...