Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That quickly changed: everybody always knew what Bill Veeck was doing, even if they rarely knew why. For 15 years, as owner of first the Cleveland Indians, then the Browns and finally the Chicago White Sox, William Louis Veeck Jr. gave big league baseball its dizziest merry-go-round ride. Now he chronicles his turbulent career in Veeck-as in Wreck (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $4.95), a brash, blunt autobiography that is certain-like everything else he has done-to tickle fans and raise his fellow owners' hackles...
Hatari! is an African western. The cowpokes (John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Red Buttons) do not herd cattle and they do not ride horses. They go bucketing over the Tanganyika plains in Jeeps and trucks to lasso giraffes, rhinos, zebras, wild buffalo and wildebeests for zoos...
...Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero...
...written, under her own name and pseudonyms, at least 100 books Edmund Wilson has never heard of. Editors loved her because she was dependable and fast. Once, with no perceptible quickening in pace, she clicked off a 12,000-word novella during a four-day coast-to-coast train ride. ''Sometimes," she admits, "the stories didn't come out very dimensional...
...Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero...