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Even Texans are impressed at the size of the 800,000-acre Matador Ranch, second only to the King Ranch (950,000 acres) in the U.S. Matador is so big that a cowboy can ride 56 miles without leaving the main ranch; its roundup goes on all the year round. Matador had another distinction: it was not controlled by Texans, but by thrifty Scotsmen in Dundee...
...When I hear some Sears & Roebuck pistol-toting cowboy from Brooklyn insinuate how the Government has tailed up the farmer at the expense of all the rest of the people," said Republican Burdick, it does not set well with me ... You complain against the beef men. I am one of them . . . I am willing to take a loss on my cattle, and it means $8,000 loss to me on the one rollback. I am willing to stand for that if it will help the entire country .; . If I was concerned only with my own interests, I would vote against...
...Angeles' KTTV, fed to the nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain dance complete with rattlesnake, a scientist who showed (with the help of liquid air at 300° F. below zero) what the world might be like if the sun went...
Midwest Hayride (Sat. 9 p.m., NBCTV) originates in Cincinnati and is billed as "an hour of songs, fun and laughter." The songs are full of hillbilly yips and cowboy yodels; the fun is provided by a backwoods M.C. with a burlesque approach; the laughter comes from mock titles like If I Can Get Through the Mattress I'll Meet You in the Spring. On the credit side: some spirited square dancing...
...chorus, 28 well-scrubbed boys (9 to 15) from Tucson, Ariz., nodded solemnly, got into their costumes: choral robes in three shades of blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with...