RACES: Two Suns on Arizona

For 30 years Dr. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become...

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