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...comfortably in one corner of the wagon with a happy smile on his face, shouting, "Neckst." Dave Clevenger, discouraged over the unhappy turn of events that had him escorting the most popular girl in the group. He saw her twice all evening. Fred Walther riding one of the horses bareback on the journey home (and they only serve soft drinks at Norumbega). Colonel Cornelius and Monsieur Bland piloting two of the hayracks homeward. The Colonel made the trip without, a mishap, but Lou ran into difficulties. See "Diz" Diano for the full story on how Lou dropped the reins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/6/1944 | See Source »

...local beach and only then gets down to work plying his trade in the form of sundry beach-landing structures. He can claim the Army has read the qualification card too literally. So can the disgruntled G.I. who is in the mechanized cavalry because his mother was a bareback equestrienne for Barnum and Bailey. Nobody's denying they make mistakes in classification. It's a big Army of the United States. But Joe College has no kick coming. Not if I can judge by what I've seen in assorted Posts, Camps and Stations...

Author: By Field Artillery, | Title: GI COLLEGE MAN GAZES UPON GOLDBRICKING AT FORT BRAGG | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...Miller had played one of his last vaudeville stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn, his fans were sent out of this world; and this was fast sending James into the land of plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horn of Plenty | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...bright blue and red tanbark, girl rope climbers who looked like Ziegfeld chorines, wedding-cake beautifications, Peter Arno drawings in the programs, refreshments passed on china platters. If they were old or sentimental enough, they were wondering what had become of the pink lemonade, the gold-toothed lady bareback rider, the gaudy, dirty, bewildering oldtime magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spring Has Come | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Most exciting event of the prison roundup is the Mad Scramble, a free-for-all barred from most rodeos as too dangerous. In this race, riders mounted on wild bulls, cows and broncs (some saddled, some bareback) are let loose simultaneously, bucking and bumping into one another in their crazy dash to the finish line. Winner last week was Ernest Myers, a Beaumont robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stars Behind Bars | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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