Word: cowboying
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Callaway Went Thataway (MGM] cheerfully spoofs a national institution-the oldtime movie cowboy, exhumed by TV, exalted on boxtops and enriched by millions of worshiping, gun-toting little fans. In fairness to Hopalong Cassidy, who dispatched deputies to a Hollywood screening to see if M-G-M had poisoned his waterhole, the studio adds a postscript to the film: "This picture was made in the spirit of fun and was meant in no way to detract from the wholesome influence, civic-mindedness and the many charitable contributions of Western idols of our American youth...
...outcome did not seem to faze busy Ben Miller. On Wednesday, he had recovered sufficiently to join some 500 other TV actors at Broadway's Maxine Elliott Theater, where he won the audition for a role in this week's CBS show Danger. Thursday, dressed as a cowboy, he posed for a photograph scheduled to appear in Look magazine. Friday, he turned artisan and spent the day soldering together metal frames for hoop skirts that will be worn by the Rockettes of Radio City's Music Hall in their Christmas show...
Kansas-born Frank Luther has been a cowboy, a Bible singer, a preacher (Disciples of Christ), a folk singer, an operatic tenor and a songwriter (Barnacle Bill the Sailor). But he is most likely to be remembered as "the Bing Crosby of the Sandpile...
Died. Tom Berry, 72, South Dakota's Democratic "cowboy governor" (1933-37); of a heart attack; in Rapid City, S. Dak. Berry went into the cattle business in his teens, built up a 30,000-acre ranch before going to the state legislature, which he called "The Follies of 1925" and regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails...
Thresky spent last night trying to dissuade cowboy star Gene Autry from flying to Chicago. The word-bird made an emergency landing at Logan Airport late yesterday afternoon, after he was wounded by the weekend storm...