Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe I'm a dude, but I'll be glad when the Olympics and Celtics take over the Garden. Hockey and basketball are just a little more exciting...
...airlines were also pushing vacation tours. Eastern offered a packaged "houseparty air tour," from New York to Miami and return. It included a week at a good hotel, food, dancing, wiener roast, a cruise and a champagne party-all for $153.82. United Airlines offered tours to Hawaii, to Colorado dude ranches, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada...
Short on plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...
Other relaxation is close to the post : an aviation dude ranch called Pancho's Fly-Inn (or the Happy Bottom Riding Club). The ranch has its own airport, lighted at night, so that guests, friends and airborne wayfarers can fly in at all hours. The Fly-Inn is a much-buzzed place. Standing alone on the flat desert with only a few low trees, it invites the dangerous prank that all young pilots play, no matter what the threats of flying field managers or military C.O.s. Chuck Yeager has roared low over the ranch in every sort of airplane...
...take a year-long trip around the world and see everything. The New York Daily News thought there was a better way: "Come to New York . . . and just stay here till the sands run out . . . There is next to nothing [that] you can't find . . . even dude ranches...