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The Will Rogers Medallion Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Publishing of Cowboy Poetry is being expanded to include other forms of Western literature. The new categories include Western Fiction, Western Non-fiction, Photographic Essays, Western Fiction for Children, Western Non-fiction for Children, Western Cookbooks and Documentary/Short Subject Films. The initial awards in the new categories will be presented in 2008 for works published in 2007. The deadline for submissions is February 1st.
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Cowboy comedian Will Rogers stars as a jealous husband who tries to ruin his wife's budding acting career in this adaptation of playwright George Kelly's "The Torch Bearers." Feeling neglected because his wife, Paula (Billie Burke), spends her time rehearsing with a theater troupe instead of paying attention to him, Thomas Brown (Rogers) decides to get back at her by coming up with a stage act of his own. Sterling Holloway co-stars.
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Rogers was the youngest of his parents' eight children. Only three of his siblings, sisters Sallie Clementine, Maude Ethel, and May (Mary), survived into adulthood. The children attended Willow Hassel School in Neosho, Missouri, and later Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. He ended his studies after the 10th grade. He admitted he was a poor student, saying that he "studied the Fourth Reader for ten years."[4] He was much more interested in cowboys and horses, and learned to rope and use a lariat.
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Of all the New Deal programs, Rogers thought the least of those in agriculture. Henry Wallace's attempts to restrict production were no different than the policies of the Farm Board under Hoover. At the same time the government was encouraging homesteading through the resettlement of eastern farmers on range land. Rogers had a cowboy's prejudice against sod-busters. He knew that land west of the Hundredth Meridian should not be plowed. It was natural grazing land.
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