Word: sagebrush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist Wister established the basic form of the modern sagebrush saga: the strong, silent, shy and virtuous hero; the hard-drinking, materialistic villain; the pretty, intelligent schoolteacher-heroine; the cattle politics; the slow drawl, the fast draw; the long, wary walk down Main Street to a blazing finish. And Zane Grey, a cactus-happy New York dentist who wrote 54 western novels that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious...
With the uncowed look of a retired town marshal sniffing rustlers in the sagebrush, horse racing's grand old man, Trainer James ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, this week celebrates his 84th birthday, shows no signs of slowing to a sedate canter. Up at 4:45 a.m. for his day at the track, Mr. Fitz still keeps two dozen thoroughbreds under his watchful eye, including Stakes Winner ($764,204 so far) Bold Ruler. At night, naturally. Fitz stays abreast of horseflesh problems the TV way: watching westerns...
...this case, the arrival of the 3:10 to Yuma. And the sound track keeps suggesting, with the insidious plucking of a panicky guitar, that the moviegoer's heartbeat should be getting faster and faster. Too bad-because Actor Heflin gives a performance well above the usual sagebrush standard...
...serve the new salts and their sagebrush cousins, marinas have blossomed into a big business. Like the motel boom, the number of U.S. marinas has grown from a mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space...
...view of Governor Langlie's stand on public power, a more appropriate background would include an expanse of sagebrush wasteland with kerosene lamps rampant...