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Golfer Lee Trevino won last year because he could "talk a cowgirl out of her boots." Now the 700 members of the Girls Rodeo Association have given their "Man on the Trail" award to part-time Cowboy Steve Ford, 19, the President's youngest son. Despite competition from Actors Warren Beatty and Tennis Star Jimmy Connors, Ford rode off with the prize, a silver belt buckle. "He's just about the closest thing to the big man in Washington−an outdoor type with executive demeanor," cooed Association President Margaret demons. "The girls would love...
...been described as an "angelic cowgirl." At times the phrase fits. Dressed in fringed shirt, jeans and high boots, working over a Merle Haggard favorite like Bottle Let Me Down, she can produce a brassy twang. But Emmylou Harris' emotional singing style owes more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold...
Another change is cowgirl competition. The cowgirls have been around for years, but now, instead of performing merely as a side show to the men's rodeo, several hundred female ropers and riders have organized their own circuit. With only 30 rodeos and prize money so limited that the leading competitors earn less than $1,000 a year, the cowgirl tour is struggling to gain parity. "We're out there riding the same broncs and bulls the men are," says top Bareback Rider Benjie Prudom. "There's no reason we shouldn't get paid the same...
...roommate wanted nothing more than to see Neil Young, but that was before Harvest. I'm inclined to agree; it's been artistically downhill for him ever since the momentary flashes of brilliance on After the Goldrush. But Jesus, what can you expect from a guy responsible for "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand/Is this place at your command...
Died. Claire McGill Luce, 47, former publishing executive, and since 1960 wife of TIME Publisher Henry Luce III; of cancer; on Fishers Island, N.Y. At the age of twelve, Mrs. Luce was already hard at work as a cook and cowgirl on her grandfather's Oregon cattle ranch. After joining Time Inc. in 1943, she soon assumed responsibility for managing the company's stock portfolio and various holdings. She left the company in 1948 to join a special U.S. aid mission to China, where she was twice the target of snipers, and returned to Time Inc. eight years...