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...started because bowiegged, lively Dr. Shaw once coached a championship football team at Cheyenne Mountain. The school has not played football since. Dr. Shaw decided that football success made prigs of his boys and he hunted for more wholesome pastimes. He tried bronco-busting, riding, skiing, gliding, eventually chose folk dancing, at which girls could play too. He made it appeal to boys by adapting lusty, swinging cowboy dances. Today most of his high-school students go out for it. To make the first team of eight couples, which annually goes touring with Dr. Shaw, is as good as earning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pappy's Pupils | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...threnodic '30s he wrote best-selling proletarian novels so much better than the professional proletarians that people did not realize what they were. Critic Robert Forsythe had to apologize before recommending The Stars Look Down to readers of the Communist New Masses. But the art of trending, like bronco-busting, lies in knowing when to fall off and catch another horse. The Keys of the Kingdom finds Author Cronin firmly riding a trend that promises to go forward by leaps & bounds-the trend back to religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Henry Ford is a U. S. symbol of many meanings: mass production, low cost, high wages for workmen, the open shop. In the eyes of the New Deal the last makes him a maverick. Like an unbroken bronco who has roamed the plains in absolute freedom, Henry Ford had gone his way; many times the New Dealers had almost lassoed him, but never quite. This week the old mustang appeared to be roped at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: 23 Men v. Henry Ford | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Wesleyan 13-7 Will win this one St. Mary's California 14-7 Bears still groggy Michigan Michigan State 20-7 Hail to the victors valiant Ohio State Purdue 26-13 A track meet Cornell Colgate 13-0 Ithacans too smooth U. C. L. A. Santa Clara 10-7 Bronco busters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey's Scores for Today's Games | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

Without Colonel Johnson, the opening parade up Broadway was led last week by the new impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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