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Matching his point score against the all-round cowpokes who also compete in calf roping, steer wrestling and saddle-bronc riding. Tompkins then outclassed the field for all-round honors with 30.935 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Self-Made Cowboy | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...place to farm weekends and to erect a hedge against further inflation. Many of the sellers were estates or farmers overwhelmed by a lush offer far in excess of their property's value as a working enterprise. The one exception: big ranches in the Western grasslands, where steer prices have dipped about 7? a pound, now bring 20% less than a year ago. Farm real estate men like Don W. Reed of Painesville, Ohio thought farm prices would continue upward in 1953, but at a slower rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Past the Peak? | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Steer your beau away from Mt. Auburn street into the distinctive but discreet. Plaid is in taste, with reservations, or throttle his reticence with a sports shirt of grey, blue-grey, green-grey, or flesh--add a string tie. If he's still bashful get him to try a blue suit with a white collar, open at the neck, and a pin-stripe blue shirt. Hide everything under a rumpled macintosh for the final surprise...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...jockey, booting them home at the county fairs. At 17, Bi quit jockeying and transferred his affections to harness racing, a sport in which oldsters have long excelled. But a kid rider's hell-for-leather zest could not make do for the good, grey experience required to steer a careering sulky behind a winning trotter or pacer. Bi was still learning the rudiments of the harness sport in 1898 when he was called to the Spanish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Enough to Win | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...evenings in Phoenix, Ariz., it is a standard reflex to steer for one of the district's ten drive-in movies. This summer, as an alternative, Phoenix has drive-in religion. Five nights a week, the Rev. George A. Rustad, state director of Arizona's Seventh-Day Adventists, offers two services featuring an uplift movie and a sermon illustrated with colored slides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Drive-ln Chapels | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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