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...they were all very healthy. Not one of them had got the mumps which had kept a couple of their playmates home in bed. Aboard a ferry they chugged peacefully across the river, listening to tug whistles, playing with miniature fish poles, sand pails and shovels, cowboy hats, a live cat and a 2-ft, pink-haired doll named "Betsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: Pioneers | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Inthe shot put, Cowboy Dick Pfister, in his last performance in intercollegiate athletics, a filed where he has made his name more than a little well-known, chalked up a fourth behind the winning distance of 52 feet, 2 3/4 inches. Not only did that meet ring down the curtain on Pfister as far as Harvard is concerned, but John Bunker, one of the finest competitors and most consistent winners on the squad, checked out for good when he dropped out of the high jump competition. Tom White, another regular winner, also finished on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mackinnon Sets Record | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

Dreamed up by ex-Cowboy Fred Harman in 1938, the Ryder had appeared in 640 newspapers in every State in the union, had accumulated a daily following of more than 13,000,000 readers. Mutual decided to tilt high-minded Ryder against masked Ranger. They put Red on a Mutual hookup at the same hour. To the tune of The Dying Cowboy the Ryder thundered in on his horse, Thunder, finished in a dead heat against Silver, the Ranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo, Silver, Plated | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Bulow's chief worry in the primaries is "Cowboy Tom" Berry, 63, who is 5 ft. 10 in. without his sombrero, weighs 195 lb. Berry is a friend of Harry Hopkins; was Governor of the State during the lean years of drought and grasshoppers. Berry has backed much of the New Deal. Also known as a South Dakota wit, Berry is needling Bulow on his pensions record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: They Come Big in Dakota | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Will Rogers Jr., 30-year-old son of the late cowboy humorist, entered the Congressional race in California's 16th District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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