Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally Rand rode piggyback into Los Angeles' marriage license bureau aboard groom-to-be Thurkel Greenough, rodeo-boy. Both were promptly served with summonses in the ex-Mrs. Greenough's suit for $100-a-month maintenance...
Over 300 sailors from the British warships tied up in American ports will invade" next Monday's performance of the Rodeo in celebration of British War Relief Night at the "Greatest Show on Earth." Half of the evening's proceeds will go to British Relief...
...ranch, learn cavalry maneuvers from Canadian ex-mounties and U.S. Cavalry officers. At civic celebrations they stage precision drills, trick riding, other stunts. They perform at San Francisco's annual East-West football game on New Year's Day, have appeared at State fairs, roundups, rodeos. Last week San Francisco's possemen were the feature attraction at the Pacific International Horse Show & Rodeo at Portland...
Portland's rodeo fans have witnessed many an unscheduled thriller in their arena but none to equal last week's performance of San Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist...
...which more than half of the 882 U.S. stations belong. Three weeks ago in Chicago a convention, attended by 200 station representatives, solemnly voted to make membership in NAB no requisite for membership in the National Independent Broadcasters association. Since then NIB membership has doubled. At Manhattan's Rodeo, Cowgirl Alice Greenough took a WOR mike along on a straightbucking broncho to describe her sensations to the radio audience. Alice's description was brief: "Ooph . . . ooph . . . ooph...