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Pastor in Pistachio. Business, by earthly standards, was good indeed. Tom worked up a wardrobe of 46 expensive suits (favorite: a pistachio-green gabardine), a flock of screaming sport shirts and cowboy jackets, 200 pairs of cowboy boots, some worth $200. "I like to keep my feet covered," explained Brother...
Evans (see cut) . . . Mr. Evans' shadow is a perfect silhouette of America's most beloved cowboy, Will Rogers...
Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth, newsprint in the piny-woods country at Lufkin, saddles and cowboy boots in scores of small shops, and women's sport clothes in Dallas' burgeoning garment business. The West Texas town of Monahans (pop. 7,000) is popularly believed to produce the nation's healthiest and most intelligent trained fleas...
Straight-shooting Movie Cowboy Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd was beginning to look like the biggest moneymaking star in television. In Hollywood, Boyd's managers boasted that 54 Hopalong pictures were grossing $1,000,000 a year on TV. Boyd's take: $150,000 a year-not counting what he makes from movies, radio, personal appearances and various Hopalong cowboy toys and clothes...
Born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne broke into the movies as a prop man, graduated to cowboy actor when Director John Ford took a shine to him. Through most of the '30s, he made quickie westerns so fast that he "practically had to sleep on a horse." In 1939 Director Ford came to the rescue with a leading role in Stagecoach. After that, Wayne's career went ahead at full gallop...