Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daring event because 1) the company was too broke to have costumes onade or scenery painted and had to go on with the girls wearing rehearsal tights and street sweaters and the men in dungarees; and 2) dance Americana had been done to death by Agnes de Mille (Rodeo), Martha Graham (Appalachian Spring), Eugene Loring (Billy the Kid), etc. Nevertheless, the new ballet survived handsomely. While Kay's orchestration produced some remarkable grunts and twangs, Balanchine's dancers were on their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square...
...clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns a 125-acre ranch and a rodeo arena. At least five Atlanta firms have built private parks for their employees at nearby Allatoona Lake...
After eight seconds of this, the timer sounded his horn. Other cowboys closed in on the bucking sorrel, grabbed the halter and gave rangy (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) Bill Linderman a chance to swing safely to the ground. From the rodeo crowd came the happy hooting and hollering of people who know a good ride when they...
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...
Last year Linderman won the title of All-Around Cowboy champion for the third time. His winnings reflect the postwar rise of rodeo from a sporadic local show to a nationwide (Boston to San Francisco) sport witnessed by some 20 million people last year at 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...