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Through the city room of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News last week marched a strange procession. In the lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and two nurses. In the newspaper's morgue, Cardiologist Adamson opened his box and unveiled an electrocardiograph...
Even at the University of Washington, where coaches get fired faster than French Premiers, the dismissal of Football Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg was an unpleasant surprise. Others, sent packing after fairly successful seasons, and rudely needled by students and "downtown" alumni, had kept their peace. The difference this time: Johnny Cherberg talked back. Loudly and clearly last week, he accused university authorities of condoning a football scandal...
...week's end Washington Secretary of State Earl Coe demanded that Governor Arthur B. Langlie fire Cassill and Everest, and investigate the strange silence of University President Henry Schmitz (who last year banned Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Washington campus). Cowboy Cherberg kept talking: "The filthiest thing in the world is to corrupt young Americans with dough. I may never coach again, but God willing, I'm not going to let them corrupt any more kids...
Sunny Side. Wherever the Americans went, Russians gathered to stare, creating traffic jams. Traffic was blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...