Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting, "This stinks," or something stronger...
...aroused ladies formed the "Americans for National Coalition," composed a letter, and sent copies far & wide. The letter said in part: "There is now a greater need for change in the executive branch of our Government than ever before . . . We, a group of interested citizens in the great Southwest, feel that the greatest service can be rendered our country through . . . the drafting of ... Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Early last week, under cover of night, a fleet of Red junks crossed the channel southwest of Hoihow. A few thousand invaders disembarked. From jungle hideouts in the island's craggy interior, Red guerrillas (30,000 strong) moved down to a junction with their comrades on the beaches...