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National Finals Rodeo (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Saddle bronc, bareback bronc and Brahma bull riding, in the National Finals Rodeo at Dallas...
Died. Fred Stone, 85, grand old man of show business, multitalented performer, actor, hoofer, singer, comedian, lariatist, tightrope walker, bareback rider, ventriloquist, mime, minstrel; after long illness and two years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later...
...sized Japanese-American family (a brother twelve years older, and two sisters, eight and ten years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre farm, and talked Spanish to the Mexican peach pickers. But it was not much fun. At least, looking back on her childhood, Chiby Suzuki insists: "I could hardly wait to grow up. I didn't like...
...from toyland to architecture. Born in a world of traditional art,* Sandy turned first to engineering, drifted from job to job, began to find his medium in 1926 with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. The mobile was being born...
...worries. He will tie himself together for the last time and retire to his well-stocked Henryetta, Okla. ranch. "I keep a few calves so I'll be able to do a little ropin' and bulldoggin' of an evening," says Jim. But all that bone-breaking bareback riding will be behind him for good. Says he: "All the horses, on our place are usin' horses...