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...authors (there are three of them) have chosen a splendid background for drama. They tell their story in the "wings" of a rodeo that has brought its troupe of cowboys and cowgirls into Chicago for a week. There is plenty of color here and an opportunity to deal with the elemental emotions of simple folk. The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent. The elaborations and the compromises are what hurt...
Twenty hours would be a feat indeed. The present record is 15½ hrs., made by a German. Germans have mounted 2,500 ft., have traveled 42 mi. in gliders. They have glider clubs at practically all universities. Each year the clubs hold a grand rodeo over the rolling hills of Wasser-kuppe, near Frankfort-am-Main. German flying organizations require that their pilots be graduates of flying schools. There is a Deutscher und Segelfluguerband and a special periodical, Flugsport...
...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...
...this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided to marry...
When he speculated upon the most common of all human pastimes, Talking, it appeared to Milton ("Dance Marathon") Crandall that the purpose of this sport was to see who could talk the longest. Accordingly he announced a "noun and verb rodeo, the world's championship gab-fest," and set up a ticket-taker at the gate of an armory in Manhattan...