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High Noon. Gary Cooper as an embattled cowtown marshal facing four desperadoes singlehanded in a topnotch western (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

FORT WORTH, Texas, known both affectionately and derisively as "Cowtown," has a civic monument which, unlike San Antonio's Alamo, Houston's Shamrock and Dallas' Cotton Bowl, can walk & talk at incredible speed. That this monument is made of perishable material causes Fort Worth no immediate concern: Amon Giles Carter, tall, straight-backed and hefty, in his 73rd year shows no signs of erosion. He walks as fast as ever and talks even faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...rolled on to Omaha by bus. He flew to Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hubbub in Nebraska | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Cowtown Suite, by young (34) U.S. Composer Don Gillis. Conductor: Frank Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Amon Giles Carter, 60, fiercely hospitable, belligerently civic-minded Fort Worth publisher-promoter ("Dictator of Cowtown"); by Nenetta Burton Carter, 45-ish. She used to help welcome his hordes of guests at fabled "Shady Oaks," but asked for divorce on the grounds that her peripatetic husband's "absence from home and . . . failure to exhibit toward her ... affection and constant kindness" had "impaired her health and strength." Carter was divorced from his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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