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Emergency Measure. In Billings, Mont., explaining why he had been arrested five times for drunkenness this year, Paul Rides-the-Horse, 28, a Crow Indian, told the judge that he had merely been following a friend's toothache remedy: "Keep whisky on the tooth at all times...
There was not much doubt about who the finalists would be. Top-seeded was Defending Champion Bob Brady, 30, a muscular (5 ft 11 in., 178 Ibs.) San Francisco cop, who learned his handball at Central High School in Butte, Mont. Seeded No. 2 was stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 173 Ibs.) Brooklyn Fireman Vic Hershkowitz, 35, who won his first tournament at Coney Island in 1938. Since then, Hershkowitz has won 14 national titles, including (in 1952) the one-three-and four-wall singles...
...Questions, in their Detroit living room after dinner. In 1946, Fred Van Deventer moved himself, his wife and the game onto radio. In 1949, 20 Questions went on TV and the Van Deventers added their 15-year-old son to the panel. It has been flourishing on Du Mont for three years...
Linderman, who was born in Bridger, Mont., won his cowboy championship title by spending eleven months or so last year on a 75,000-mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
...nearly 600 rodeos. In his 14-year career, Linderman has also collected some spectacular bruises, e.g., a fractured skull at Pueblo, Colo. (1943), a broken neck and back at Deadwood, S. Dak. (1946), not to mention a broken hand in New York City, and a broken leg at Lewistown, Mont...