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Exit Afoot. In Ogden, Utah, City Commissioner William D. Wood rode happily into a rodeo arena to acknowledge his selection as rodeo foreman, was promptly thrown by his horse...
...Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Bill Mauldin started drawing when he was three. At eight, he moved with his mother and brother to a homestead near Phoenix, Ariz., at nine wrote an anti-war poem. He got his first job as an artist at twelve, drawing posters for a rodeo. While in high school at Phoenix, he took a correspondence course in cartooning, sold his first cartoon for $10. He left high school without graduating, went to Chicago, worked variously as a truck driver, dishwasher and menu designer to pay for his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago...
...huts of El Mrassas. All across the desert burnoused villagers on camelback peered eagerly from sand ridges, hailed their long-absent leader with rifle volleys fired into the air. At the village gates there were more gunfire greetings. Local sheiks genuflected. Desert drums throbbed. Horsemen staged a riotous rodeo. His Eminence, calming the hubbub with a gesture, told his followers they must thank the British for driving out the Italians. Some day, he added, he hoped to go back to Girabub to live. While the tribesmen cheered, El Senussi retired for the night; next day his British guides shepherded...
...only good thing about "Take It Big" is the sight of some of the best wild steers ever to invade a rodeo. But if you're not interested in bareback riding, steer milking and the like, arrange to come in when the main feature...
Mickey Rooney, an adolescent rakehell from the East, is sent west to Cody College for a semester in celibacy. Cinemactor Rooney is comically slapped around by cowboys and horses until he learns his lesson, saves the college from folding by staging a coeducational rodeo, wins the dean's niece (Judy Garland), and escorts her through a western omelet of dance routines to the strains of I Got Rhythm...