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...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The country's best cowboys compete-in everything from roping to bronco-busting-for $70,000 in prize money at the California Rodeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jul. 28, 1961 | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster, he shoved out to sea under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After a while, the days and nights ran together, and once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Man on the Raft | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...Secrets. At Abbey these days they call McGuire "The Fox." Riding the bench as though it were a bronco in full buck, McGuire baits officials ("I must hold the Carolina record for technical fouls"), indicates uncontrollable wrath by rising ominously from his seat and taking off his coat. Behind him, as if on signal, Abbey rooters stand to doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Showman | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization. But between the indifferent sea and the mountains, the Indians and little Jerrod eke out a few moments of great tenderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Wish You a Merry Christmas (Warner Bros. Stereo). An unlikely collection of 15 "Christmas favorites" by TV gumshoes, including Efrem (77 Sunset Strip) Zimbalist Jr. (Adeste Fideles), and cowpokes. notably Clint (Cheyenne) Walker (Silver Bells) and Ty (Bronco) Hardin ("It came upon ah mid-naht cleah"). Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes recites, to a cool jazz beat, a ditty called Yulesville: "'Twas the night before Christmas/ And all through the pad/ Not a hipcat was swingin'/ And that's nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds of Christmas | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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