Word: cowboying
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...headwaiter ($3 tip) and the lucky man who served his table. Almost every afternoon he wandered off by himself to see a "pictcha," a lonely figure who sought out movies he hadn't seen before, on Broadway or in the suburbs, without caring whether it was a cowboy film, a thriller, a musical, or good or bad. At dusk, he went to the dimly lighted cocktail lounge of the Madison Hotel, had a maximum of three Scotch & sodas, and made himself "available" again to anybody wanting to talk business...
laugh: a lively satire on cowboy movies, in which the hero is always a "buddy" to his female companion, reserving true love for his horse. Other comic material, including a skit about a Harvard man's first attempt at play-writing, falls flat in a most
...pace is Bob Hope, whose travels combine good will with handsome personal profit. In the last year, carrying along a band and a bill of vaudeville acts, Comedian Hope has covered 50,000 air miles, 65 cities, collected $1,000,000 from more than 750,000 wide-eyed fans. Cowboy Star Gene Autry spends almost six months a year on money-making one-night stands and rodeo appearances. Recently Jane Russell proved in a 30,000-mile trip that Britain and the Continent will also pay well for a close look at the real thing. (Said the London Times...
Last week two notable local citizens publicly announced their conversion. War hero and onetime Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, 32, accompanied by his wife, hurried down the aisle. Said he: "From now on, I am going to be an honest-to-God Christian." Stuart Hamblen, radio star (cowboy band) also announced his "return to the teachings of Christ," and offered his string of seven race horses for sale...
Orvon Autry may have gotten his start as an Oklahoma railroad telegraph operator, but gol darn if he didn't turn out to be America's Favorite Singing Cowboy. Good old Gene is back in the saddle all right--the latest round-up takes him to the Boston Garden for the 18th Annual World Championship Rodeo, which runs through Sunday (matinee championship performances over the weekend...