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...Rancher Thornton sold a prize steer for a charity benefit (see cut), Ward cheerfully made the high bid of $6,000. Just as cheerfully, Thornton later lent Ward $10,000 for a quick deal in return for a postdated $12,500 check (the extra $2,500 was to be Thornton's profit). The governor was puzzled when the check bounced...
Westward the Women (MGM) is the showmanlike saga of an 1851 trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
When Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham's song leader, visits the hospital, Rancher Jim sullenly accepts a copy of the Gospel of John. Alone, he does some thinking. Next Sunday, Sister Kay tunes in the Billy Graham hour on the hospital radio. Jim Tyler listens, and comes to a decision. "All my life," he drawls in the climactic scene, "I bin ridin' the wrong trail. I'm turnin' back. I'm goin' God's way-I think it's goin' to be a wonderful ride...
...people, and has contracts to seed clouds over 330 million acres west of the Missouri River (an area ten times as big as New York State), plus sections of Mexico and San Salvador. This, he intimates happily, is only a beginning-he visualizes a time when a rancher may need only turn a dial in his house to regulate rainfall on his acres. But until that day comes, the West will have to do the best it can with plain old Krick water...