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Near Miles City, Mont., Cowboy Mike Vial roped a steer, got his right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...
...Colonel Bradley was born at Johnstown, Pa. His father, Captain Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs, St. Louis...
Married. Jean Wingfield, daughter of Nevada's famed George Wingfield, onetime cowboy, gambler, speculator, mine owner, banker (whose twelve Nevada banks are closed); and Chauncey McKeever, Oxford graduate, Chicago broker; in Manhattan...
...hogging channels assigned to weak Southwestern U. S. radio stations. Last fortnight Mexico's Department of Communications issued an order suspending XER for 30 days. Resourceful Dr. Brinkley got a restraining injunction, went on broadcasting by remote control. A higher court quashed the injunction. Still cowboy songs, jazz and unctuous medical advice continued to gush out from...