The superintendent of the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Dennis Karnes, can still remember sitting on a well-pipe as a boy and being launched into the duckpond as soon as the farmer opened the valve and natural pressure spewed several thousand gallons a minute of ground water against his legs.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river

The Group Theater, headed by Harold Clurman, who helped blaze the trail for Method acting, went to see Frances Farmer in the show and hired them both for the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's play "Golden Boy" in 1937.

WSJ: Actor Harry Morgan, Who Portrayed Col. Potter on 'M*A*S*H,' Dies at 96