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...underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India (TIME, Jan. 15). Chapter III: New York's gang-busting District Attorney Frank Hogan, 63, disclosed that the DeLong ruby had wound up in the hands of some Miami usurers. They were asking $21,000 ransom, and at first Frank Hogan agreed. But 48 hours later, the D.A. snorted, "My office will not be used as an instrument in a ransom or blackmail deal like this." All of which leaves Murph the Surf and his two friends serving three-year jail terms and the DeLong ruby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 6, 1965 | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Jul. 30, 1965 | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's relentless surge to the Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. A classic collection of authentic, unromanticized Western lore about the wild mustangs and the men who brutally tamed and rode them in the conquest of the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 9, 1965 | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. 429 pages. Southern Methodist University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power of the Prairies | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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