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...cowboys are doing all right these days. Gordon Snidow has a gold watch that is like to give him a sprained wrist. Jack Swanson hasn't quit breaking horses, because he is only 53, but he is in a position to ease off a bit. Fred Fellows doesn't have to rope in rodeos for a living any more, which is just as well, since roping is no living at all, unless you can eat the silver belt buckles they give away for prizes. Joe Beeler is pushing the outer limits of legal bliss, because he doesn...
...Jack Swanson, a big, easy-talking fellow, was in his 20s, breaking horses up in Oregon, when he got a box of paints for Christmas. As a boy he'd drawn horses. Now he took a horse out into the corral, tied it to a post and began to paint. And felt sweat break out on his forehead. "I had never had the experience of being so excited." So he enrolled in art school in Oakland, taking with him a couple of his horses. He lasted less than a term. "They'd have all these pots...
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson...
...follow, the strange man beside me, more than my husband, owned me." Another steamy Hollywood confession? Indeed, and also another titillating chapter in the ever expanding Kennedy legend. This time the protagonist is not Lady-Killer Jack, but Joseph Sr., family patriarch. In her soon-to-be-published autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes...
Genentech was founded in 1976 by Herbert Boyer, a biochemistry professor at the University of California at San Francisco and a pioneer in recombinant DNA, and Robert Swanson, a financier who finds backers for new companies. Almost immediately, the firm began announcing a series of breakthroughs. The first, in 1977, was the production of a brain hormone called somatostatin, which may be used to treat certain hormonal disorders. In 1979 the company developed thymosin alpha1, which is now being tested by the National Cancer Institute for possible treatment of certain types of brain and lung cancer. Genentech's gross...