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...stampede when "all you can do is ride blind and hope to Christ." At 19 he joined the cavalry to fight Apaches; marched through the 800-mi. prairie fire of 1889. After rough riding with Roosevelt in Cuba, he became captain of the Arizona Rangers, finally penitentiary warden at Yuma (1907). All in all he calls it "a pretty good old life. Bullwhacking, cowpunching, soldiering, border ranging, she's been a grand old pasear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Remarried. Gloria Swanson, 31, cinemactress; and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; at Yuma, Ariz. They were illegally married last August at the Greenburgh, N. Y., summer home of Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, before Cinemactress Swanson's divorce from her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, became final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Married. Nina Wilcox Putnam, 42, author (It Pays to Smile, Laughter, Ltd.); and one Arthur James Ogle, 31, real estate operator of Hollywood; at Yuma, Ariz. It was the third marriage for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Married, Aimee Semple McPherson, 38, "FourSquare Gospel" evangelist; and her 250-lb. Angelus Temple Voice Instructor David Hutton, 30; at Yuma. Ariz.. after an airplane trip from Los Angeles. Present were her son Rolf and his wife, recently married. Absent was Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, estranged from her "lonely little sparrow." It was the bride's third marriage. Her first two: Robert Semple; Harold McPherson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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