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Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bareback riding, broncobusting, calf roping, steer wrestling, etc., at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Calf roping, bareback bronc riding and steer wrestling from the Las Vegas Rodeo...
...clerk. But despite intelligence, energy and irrepressible good nature, he made a poor adjustment to civilian life. Without a veteran's pension of $96 a year, he would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George F. Scheer and should correct history's lapse...
...wonder is that he sprints at all. As a child in Asbury Park, N.J., he was sickly, and a possible attack of polio left his right calf two inches thinner than his left. But his mother knew how to make an athlete. ''Frank was just like a scrawny chicken," she says. "He was always getting awful colds. I tried everything. I massaged his legs with triple-distilled alcohol, triple-distilled witch hazel and imported Italian olive oil. I mixed up goose grease, mutton suet, nutmeg and camphorated oil, and rubbed it on his chest." Well-marinated...
...mother stopped lowing and took a long time eating the afterbirth, a wretched flag, but the calf got up promptly and seemed inclined to feel...