Word: cowboying
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...famed Thanksgiving Day parade were prepared for what could only be described as a Sensational Experience. Bands, clowns, floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...
Home on the Range. The kiddies exhibited a leaping enthusiasm for the new and massive doses of entertainment offered by video. Overnight, almost every little boy & girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they saw cattle rustlers around every corner. They were not the first U.S. children to indulge in make-believe about the Old West. But they were the first to catch the fever simultaneously from coast to coast and to demand such splendid arms and accouterments...
This phenomenon has had almost as strong an effect on the self-made cowboy as it has on his juvenile admirers. Boyd-who, at 55, is an erect, ruddy man with a direct gaze, a quick smile, and a surprising air of authority and command-now has an almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber...
...believe you will find that Russell was not from the Southwest. He was a Montana cowboy and did most of his paintings in Great Falls, Montana...
...last week was a Tommy Tucker recording called I'm Praying to St. Christopher ("who watches land and sea, To keep you, darling, safe from harm wherever you may be"). Also riding high on the spiritual wave: It's No Secret ("what God can do"), by Cowboy-Singer Stuart Hamblen, a recent Billy Graham convert. Columbia has just released a musical version of the 23rd Psalm sung by Vocalist Doris Day. Scheduled: The House Where I Worship, sung by Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell...