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...streets converging on the Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while as it is now, the law controls little aside from sight-seers and boy scouts...
...thousand dollars. Of the 316 films made in Hollywood in 1944, 83, or 26%, were Westerns. Aside from the class Western, the only notable development during the past 40 years has been the singing Western, which came into being purely as an expedient when Gene Autry, a cowboy minstrel on a Chicago radio station, came to Hollywood in the early '303. Gene had been bought for his radio following; it was clear that he had to keep on singing. It was also clear that a man can't very well burst into song with both guns smoking...
...Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and such exotic items as Paris street noises during the liberation, and little-heard Russian operas...
...Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
Last Saturday was sunny and warm in southern Oklahoma. On the Lazy D Ranch, near Ada, some 400 cattlemen from the U.S. and Canada gathered around a small straw-covered arena. Most of them wore ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...