Word: cowboying
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...turkey and cranberries. The President and Churchill found time near the end of the Conference to visit the Sphinx. President Roosevelt wore a blue-grey suit most of the time; Churchill varied between a set of his zippered coveralls and a dazzling white sharkskin number, with a five-gallon cowboy...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...last week the flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place...
...more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark horse was a locally beloved dog named Tramp. When the final votes were counted Cowboy Evans nosed out Tramp by only 26 votes...
...dresses quietly, usually in dark suits, and seldom straps on the $375 diamond-studded cowboy belt given him by Fort Worth Publisher Amon G. Carter. His pleasures are simple. He likes to fish; he is most at home among his small circle of intimates, largely members of the Texas delegation in Congress, with whom he swaps stories of Texas history and local politics. He drinks very lightly, does not play poker, reads heavily-history and Westerns...