Word: cowboyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Please keep this under your Stetson," read Barbara Sinatra's invitation, "but I'm tossing a surprise birthday party for my blue-eyed cowboy." Cary Grant, the Fred Astaires, the Gregory Pecks, Spiro Agnew, the Johnny Carsons and 200 others were on hand to greet the guest of honor at his own spread in Rancho Mirage, Calif., under a tent rigged with saloon-style bars, cacti, a bandstand and spittoons. Old Blue Eyes was delighted: "I'm gushing with happiness," said he. Guess when a man turns 65, it's time to hoe down...
...Cowboy at Commerce...
Lean (6 ft. 1 in., 175 Ibs.) and handsome as a cigarette-ad cowboy, Baldrige lives with his wife Margaret, the first woman member of the local volunteer fire department, on a rambling estate in Woodbury. The couple have two grown daughters. Baldrige first began riding at age seven in Nebraska. He took up steer roping in the 1950s, turned professional in the late '60s, and now competes in an average of eight rodeos a year. "I just plain like it," he once said. "I like the timing, the coordination, the partnership with a good horse, the excitement...
...Pittsburgh Press covered the front page with a picture of a dejected Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers' cowboy quarterback, and devoted the entire sports section to self-pity. Pittsburgh's other daily paper, the Post-Gazette, didn't even have the heart to mention the game...
...striped-pants morning suit for him. No Priscilla of Boston gown for her. No Rose Garden reception for either of them. Just a short hop to Manhattan's supreme court for a civil ceremony, he in jeans and red sweatshirt, she in scarlet cowboy boots, black sweater and slacks. Then it was back to the barre for Ronald P. Reagan, 22, a Joffrey II dancer, who has been rooming for more than a year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right...