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...Past. In Salt Lake City, Merrill Clement, 35, recalled high spots in his life since the age of four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a bull, treed by another bull, gouged in three fingers by a saw, hit under the eye by a cement mixer crank...
...Dogs. Smart cougar dogs can follow days-old trails, baying continuously so that the hunter can follow. Good hounds will keep the big cats treed for half a day until the hunter catches up. The West has developed its own breed of hounds-big, rangy, fast "black and tans." Hunters start training with a sackful of house cats for practice treeing. Only after two seasons of running with veterans do most dogs learn to disregard deer trails and stay on the cougar scent...
...Titus's ranch, eventually turned up with two tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...
With a perfect batting average-three hits in three pictures and an Academy Award nomination thrown in-Teresa quietly pursues her private life on her new husband's walnut-treed, swimming-pooled, press-agent-free acres in San Fernando Valley. If Sam Goldwyn is right, this tranquil double life will not last. Says he earnestly and grammatically, apropos her role in Pride of the Yankees: "She doesn't need much ballyhoo. Far better the public should discover her. They will. She's got it inside, things you can't learn...
Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...