Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wintringham is no Sandhurst diehard, but his dope on warfare is from the inside. At 18 he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in France as air gunner, dispatch rider, machine-gunner. At 38 he went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla...
...latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat-tail rider. He is a man of independent and forward-looking mind, the type for which there is a need in the national legislative halls. Two years ago, he failed in his first campaign to carry a strongly Republican district by the narrow margin of only 1800 votes. Tomorrow the people of this...
...Paul Guyton, in for 20 years for shooting a big fellow who picked on him in a saloon. Guyton, whose 125 pounds had never been astride anything but a motorcycle until last year, won $25 for riding a Brahma steer the length of the arena. In five appearances, Bull-rider Guyton has never been thrown...
...rider who got the biggest hand was Bill Moore of Dallas, who competed with his broken arm in a cast, gracefully hit the dust with his cast held high...
Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...