Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations on a lively and readable story on the opening of dove season in the Imperial Valley [Sept. 13]. I was there, and your article captured the spirit of the occasion admirably...
...Imperial Valley ranchers hate dove shooting for the damages done to people, pets, wildlife and clothes hanging on the clotheslines. The villagers stay away from the country through fear of being "winged" by trigger-wild Davy Crocketts from the city...
Caskets are now "styled" with an eye to customer appeal. Very strong now in casket styles, Miss Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted...
...Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, 1956 deb-of-the-year, who splashed into headlines at 18 with a surprise engagement to 34-year-old Oil Heir Richard Cowell, cancelled it when Daddy objected only to elope with Cowell, divorced him at 20, and finally settled down at Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho as the wife of the assistant manager; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their delicate game. Said one last week: "I don't care if they sing like Caruso...