Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bumped Off. The reasons were as complex-and sometimes as absurd-as the Indians themselves. Some Indians still seethe with resentment. Grumbled Arizona Apache Jesse Stevens about Hollywood's cowboy-and-Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
...class-conscious communist who conquers every handicap and convinces the people of the truth of the ideology. This figure is quite like the hero of the cowboy movies. He can fight against all odds and win even so. The only difference is that the communist does not wear a ten-gallon hat but a set of rumpled coveralls...
Many of the cowboys made good this summer for the first time, then decided to come East this fall to see the country and try their luck. A typical example is Jay T. Smith of Iota, Idaho, who won the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo. Smith, like most of the others, has paid out more in expenses than he has won. Only about fifty of the nation's 3,000 rodeo cowboys earn more than $10,000 annually of the $3,000,000 of- fered in prizes. No cowboy is paid; in fact each has to pay to compete for prize...
...watch the sport most incapable of being fixed. There are now special convict, Negro, High-School, 4-H and Indian rodeos; there is even a National Inter-Collegiate Rodeo Association with 83 members. The Rodeo lobby has enough strength to pressure Congress into passing a bill authorizing a Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Despite the growing spectator quality of the sport, it continues to evoke strong loyalty. When I asked Jay T. if he would ever quit the rodeo, he replied, "Why no. It's mah profession."GALOOTS AND SADDLES...
Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...