Word: stetsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Florida's Stetson University matched his $250,000 for a law-school library, Dana was in business. Since, he has given $200,000 to Georgia's Berry College toward a new dormitory, $150,000 to North Carolina's Guilford College for its extension school, $350,000 to Connecticut's University of Bridgeport toward a science building. His object is to meet each school's crying need-halfway...
...Delfino's cowboy boots are old and scuffed. His Stetson is sweat stained, and his jeans are dirty from the hard labor of running his family's $10 million cattle, farming and packing business in California. He is a taciturn, hard-bitten cowpoke, but he has the U.S. livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more...
Kozlov bounded off the plane in Sacramento, was given a cream-colored Stetson that was too big for him, posed with two beauty queens, one of whom was a Negro ("Note her California tan," said Brown). Seeing a map illustrating California's big plans for a statewide water system (TIME, June 29), Kozlov observed: "Socialism is helping capitalism." Replied "Pat" Brown quickly: "We don't call it that." Later, Roman Catholic...
...also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there a difference between Best Western Actor with Black Stetson and Best-Dressed Cowboy Excluding Canes and Ruffled Vests?" Almost everyone agreed with Angry Loser Ed Sullivan (his presentation of the brilliant Moiseyev Dancers went without a nod), who came away convinced that the academy's 4,000 members had again turned the election into a personal popularity contest...
...taking in more money than the psychoanalysts. Horses were making more than people-up to $100 a day, while the average extra was getting $22.05. And the Hollywood hills were alive with "Method Cowboys" who would display their diplomas from the Actors' Studio at the drop of a Stetson...