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...Tenderfoot. In Melbourne, Rodeo Rider Reginald Cakebreak tried his little niece's rocking horse, fell and broke his collarbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Tenderfoot. In Spokane, Maxine Mayther was granted a divorce when she told the judge that her husband "thought the height of entertainment was listening to The Lone Ranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...When the tenderfoot later drew a Galoola Bird of his own, the Westerner pointed to a sec ond sign: HOUSE RULE - ONLY ONE GALOOLA BIRD ALLOWED IN AN EVENING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galoola Bird | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Unperturbed, WAA's Larson curtly wired White to turn everything over to Kaiser-Frazer. Then Edgar Kaiser, Henry's son, dropped in at Republic to take over. Poker Player White felt like the Eastern tenderfoot who started to take in the pot on a royal flush, only to have a Western pro lay down a pair of deuces and announce that he had a Galoola Bird. The Westerner pointed to a sign on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galoola Bird | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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