Word: palominos
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...cultivated city populated by little old ladies who sit behind lace curtains and, according to legend, knit Volkswagens. But on New Year's Day. Pasadena is no place for the timid. Bass drums defile the dawn, and the aroma of American Beauty mingles with the perfume of nervous palomino. The Tournament of Roses parade is all about girls and beauty; the afternoon's football game is supposed to separate the men from the boys...
...tooth and short in the wind for all this biffbang and muscling around. In Comancheros the camera discreetly looks the other way whenever he tries to haul himself up the side of a horse. The day is plainly not far off when Wayne will have to trade that pretty palomino for a sensible buckboard, and in the last line of the film the moviemakers wistfully express what millions of moviegoers will undoubtedly feel. As Big John strides resolutely into the sunset, the heroine (Ina Balin) calls after him: "Goodbye. We'll miss you. We've kind of gotten...
Snapped by a waiting state photographer when he rode his palomino gelding Sunshine right up the steps of the State Capitol and into his office, Louisiana's crooning Governor Jimmie Davis thought he looked so purty that he just had to share it. When the first 150 8-by-10 enlargements were snapped up by friends, he ordered another batch of even bigger shots for other Louisianians who want to see how their Governor spends his time. Juvenile constituents of all ages were begging for the autographed photos, but Jimmie's Democratic colleagues had other reasons for being...
Under the circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next...
...Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile heads, chucking infant chins, then climbed ably astride a Palomino for the Rex Allen parade...