Word: dudeness
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Lucius Beebe, the dandy who swapped Manhattan's upholstered saloons last year for the publisher's desk on Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, sang the praises of the rugged Nevada life to Columnist Leonard Lyons, but admitted that he still had a dude's taste for comfort. His bathroom contains, among other things, "my private barber chair, a reading rack of periodicals, phone extension, four slot machines, a crystal chandelier and a cuckoo clock...
...Class of the Week: Colorado A & M's two-day course in dude-ranching-including studies in everything from "Dining Decoration, Western Style" to "HorseShoeing, Dude-Ranch Style...
...type, with a quick draw, a thick drawl and the sprawl of the Far West in his gait. Last week the picture cowboy was put to shame by a cowpoke from the wide open spaces of Peekskill, N.Y. Hard-riding Harry Tompkins. who learned his trade on a Catskill dude ranch, was named all-round world-champion cowboy of 1952 by the Rodeo Cowboys' Association...
...having to skip town because of a crime investigation, Bookie "Numbers" Foster (Scott Brady) and his hypochondriac sidekick, "Poorly" Sammis (Wally Vernon) wind up in Georgia backwoods country, where they adopt a hillbilly girl (Mitzi Gaynor). In short order the pretty hillbilly becomes a dancing star at Dave the Dude's nightspot and horse parlor on Broadway. It takes just a little while longer for Numbers, spurred on by Mitzi's affection, to decide to go straight...
...Josephy set about learning what he could from all of them. He wrote letters to railroads, industries, chambers of commerce, local and state development boards, highway commissions, industrial development agencies, newspapers, and even to the Dude Ranchers Association (a sizable industry in some of the valley states...