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...considered an asset that can be depreciated over a relatively short period; the expenses of raising herds are fully deductible, and long-term profits are taxed as capital gains at a top of 25% . Among the part-time beef barons are Jack Benny, Greer Garson, Gene Autry, Dinah Shore, Stewart Granger, Hunt Oil Co. and the Mormon Church...
Racing the Express. Iceboating is the fastest of all winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light...
...knife overboard and knocks the boy (who has protested that he can't swim)in after it. The lad disappears and the wife, convinced that he has drowned, berates her husband as a murderer and a coward. The man, beaten and scared, leaves the boat and swims for shore. From behind a buoy, where he has been hiding, the boy swims back to the boat and triumphantly seduces the wife...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes...
Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas...