Word: cowboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...
...week, uncovered phony medicines and phony politicians, fought for income taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William Ludlow Chenery (1925-43), started down again after World...
BEFORE BARBED WIRE, by Mark H. Brown and W. R. Fenton (254 pp.; Holt; $10), draws on the work of L. A. Huffman, who was perhaps the best of the photographers who tried to document the old West. Here are 124 splendidly direct and realistic pictures devoted to cowboy country and life in the '80s and '90s. Informative text, a fine piece of Americana...
...public power, declining lumber prices, and they re-elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good at the country-crossroads campaign once he got the hang of it). In Colorado. Republican Dan Thornton did little besides sashay around in cowboy boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado's old-age-pension system. They sent Democrat John Carroll, plain-spoken...
...Shewing-Up of Blanch Posnet is a languid Western yarn, a genre in which the writer proves himself very ill at ease. Shaw is no cowboy. Neither is his hero, it must be admitted: Blanco is a kicking cousin of Dick Dudgeon, a would-be Hotspur in Levis and a grizzly beard, whose poetic force is out of place amid long-jawed neighbors. Blanco's tale is simple. He steals a horse. After a few twists involving first a slut then the mother of a just-dead baby, he is set free. The whole situation seems rather tired...