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Matching his point score against the all-round cowpokes who also compete in calf roping, steer wrestling and saddle-bronc riding. Tompkins then outclassed the field for all-round honors with 30.935 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Self-Made Cowboy | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...belt depends upon the hour of the day and upon the formality and texture of the costume. The self-respecting Cliffedweller would as soon wear luminous green eyeshadow in the daytime as appear in red satin cinch for a nine a.m. class. Leather--plain polished saddle leather or colored calf--looks best with sweaters and tweeds, but a girl could conceivably branch out into monetone or even striped or polka-dotted grosgrain and possibly velveteen for daytime wear. After-five and night-life cinches encompass a staggering range of materials, from supple leathers (since sweaters are now correct...

Author: By George S. Abramfs, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: It's A Cinch--The Hottest Seller on the Market | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...Game. In Cameron, Texas, while watching a cattle auction, Doris Lott slapped at a fly, was informed that she had just bought a calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 6, 1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Eliot is fickle because of the author's flirtation with the classics and religion, and so on with the heirs of 1912, then Full Cycle may extract a chuckle here and there. Viereck, however, falls to equally deplorable sins of banality and conceit. "Cow? Bad enough! But sacred--calf?" From the technical point of view, one can say that the poet has a good sense of rhythm and sound. But these attributes are regrettably eclipsed by the bitter, turtle-on-his-back, approach towards a subject which calls for serious treatment...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Advocate | 9/27/1952 | See Source »

...important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks up pert Glynis Johns, who is one of the Island's rulers masquerading as an army cook, as well as the oddest expeditionary force in movie history. On the way back Venus has a calf and David and Glynis discover true love. But it's in between the going over and the coming back that the picture is at its funniest. Island Rescue may not be up to the standard of other British comedies, but it is a very funny film...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Island Rescue and Ivory Hunters | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

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