Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, 34-year-old Stanley Davis Jones was just another leathery-necked U.S. forest ranger, living quietly with his schoolteacher wife ("Most rangers marry schoolteachers, doggoned if I know why") on the edge of California's Death Valley. Last week, Stan Jones was cruising around Hollywood in a 1949 car, with reporters and photographers on his tail. Overnight, a little tune that he had cooked up around the campfire, called Riders in the Sky, had put him in the spotlight...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...
...down. Nor was the slime their only foe. As they struggled, huge eagles (Harpagornis) swooped down and tried to pick some meat from the enveloping "aspic." Some of the eagles became mired too, and left their remains (bigger than the great monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines) in Pyramid Valley's death trap...
...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...
Herb Mee was low man for the day with a 75. The match was played in wind and pouring rain at the Happy Valley Municipal Course, after MIT couldn't got onto its own home links...