Bronco at Bellevue

Patients young & old at Manhattan's cityrun Bellevue Hospital marvelled one day last week at an oldster who arrived to entertain them for the publicity which all such charity performances are accorded by the city's press. He was ''Powder River Jack" Lee, a leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played a harmonica with his nose. He sang "Never Tie a Knot in a Billy Goat's Tail'' while his wife "Powder River Kitty " in another ten-gallon hat. played the guitar. Back in his hotel Powder River Jack Lee received reporters, expressed himself on the way cowboy songs are sung over the radio: One old cowrboy I know pulled his six-shooter and plugged a hole right through his own radio when he heard one of them cowboy crooners ! The cowboys never crooned or whined. And they never yodeled. If they had, we'd of strung them up!"

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