Word: yuma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN H. MORAWITZ Yuma, Ariz...
...booming Hollis B. Roberts was one. Wiped out after five struggling years in the Texas dust bowl, Roberts sold his runty cattle, his house and farm equipment, bought a 1929 Chevy on credit, and with $75 in his jeans, started out for California. In Yuma, Ariz, he joined other stranded Okies who had run out of cash, cadged a job pitching hay at $2.70 a day. In return for milking his landlord's cows every morning, Roberts got a rent-free two-room shack for eight months...
...Yuma (Columbia). "Safe?" sneers the marshal. "Who knows what's safe? I know a man dropped dead from lookin' at his wife." By that standard, moviegoers will be safer at this picture than at home. The marshal is trying to "deppytize" a passel of Hollywood tender-seats to convey a captured dry-gulch artist (Glenn Ford) cross country to catch a train, but the bandit's gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money...
Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...
...snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus...