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FANS ARGUED ABOUT IT: WAS he better at bull riding or bareback riding--or just the greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred...
...Troy" set, he is riding a horse bareback - and galloping toward celebrity. He says of his Hulkdom, "I'm very mindful of being thrust upon the public." But for the moment, no one recognizes him poolside in Malta. He seems to cherish this last phase of anonymity. When asked what he would like fans to know about him, he says with a laugh, "As little as humanly possible...
Discussing the limitations of age is passe to Short and her rodeo colleagues. "People tell me to quit all the time," says Mario Ciucci, 58, a bareback rider, "but I feel as good as I did at 35." Still, it's impossible to ignore the reality that a group of grandparents are dodging bull horns and bronco hooves--especially since the animals make no allowances for age. Injuries are guaranteed. In Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe...
Meredith B. Osborn ’02, a senior in Leverett House, can juggle. She spent the summer riding kangaroos bareback through Australia and getting stopped at borders between Cairo and Istanbul. Her column will relate the issues at Harvard to the world, demonstrating that Harvard isolationism is no better than U.S. foreign policy...
...small moments that are very fleeting but filled with portent...and whatever else they're filled with." In addition to the portent, the book has photos, including a young Jewel with a belly that would make Charles Durning proud and an in-the-gloaming cover shot of Jewel riding bareback. "When you grow up on a ranch, you tend to learn things like that. I can also chop wood and gut a cow." Photos of those activities will be included in the next book...