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...Pierced Nose-a name given them by early French-speaking trappers because some braves wore bits of shell in their noses) were a notably peaceful tribe until provoked into rebellion by avaricious and cruel whites. He also paints the romanticized Indian-fighting army of the Old West as a shiftless and uninspired collection of sad sacks. In any pitched battle, Josephy maintains, Indians proved to be better fighters and better marksmen than U.S. troops or volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Stand | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...ROUNDERS. This amiable western spoof is enlivened by Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as a team of shiftless bronco-busters trapped in a love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...ROUNDERS. This amiable western spoof is enlivened by Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as a team of shiftless bronco-busters trapped in a love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...completely disarming the U.S., for doing away with our Army, Navy and Air Force," for continuing programs that will "wipe out the value of all their savings, their life insurance policies, their bonds and mortgages, and will redistribute wealth from the industrious and frugal into the hands of the shiftless," and for "more riots to be instigated by racial agitators, for more racial bitterness, and for greater use of all these fomented troubles to forward Communist purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Real Poop | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...fabulously successful film producer (Seven Arts Productions), he had never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Girl | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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