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...above dispatch received by the CRIMSON last night is the first news that has been received of the famous CRIMSON prognosticator since his hurried exit from Cambridge last fall following the football season. After querying the Oriental sage by wire the CRIMSON was assured by its cooney observer that he would be out of jail and forecast the Kentucky Derby for his Harvard and Cambridge followers tomorrow and that he would also decree the way the crews will finish in the four-cornered regatta on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra! Extra! Extra! | 5/16/1930 | See Source »

...LAST RUSTLER-Lee Sage-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cowboy | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...Sage, onetime rustler (horse-thief, cattle-thief), cowboy, broncobuster, sheriff, moonshiner, lived a rough life. Now he is in the movies. Rustler Sage's book is a loud, boastful, colorful account of a loud, boastful, colorful career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cowboy | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cowboy | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...left the Indians, wandered up and down the West. When Prohibition came, Rustler Sage married, took to moonshining, gave it up after three years because of what his children would think of him if he went to jail. He and his wife never got along. Finally he left her and his three children, rode away and never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cowboy | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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