Word: boeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Darien, Conn., Margaret Boeth talked to members of a thriving congregation of Evangelical Episcopalians. She remembers that, as a child in Mississippi, she once announced to her father that she no longer believed in God and would not be attending church services. "But my dear," her father replied, "we have always gone to church." Says Boeth: "I went." Now she is an active but traditional Episcopalian. She found herself envying the new Evangelicals but not really able to join them. Thirty miles and several worlds away from Darien, Correspondent Jeanne Saddler was impressed by a group of Evangelicals who minister...
...strengths and weaknesses of real baseballers were fed into a computer by the designers. These in turn affect the strengths and weaknesses of Stratomatic players; one scholar at Atlanta's Emory University punched his fist through two windows last year after losing at Stratomatic. New York teenager Chris Boeth can play a solitaire game in about 13 minutes, he reports. That is fast; still... "Let's see, there's 162 games in a regular season. And, of course, 26 teams in the two leagues ..." It works out to 57 eight-hour days of living-room baseball...
...course, not everyone has caught the contagion, and Kanfer declares firmly that "relatives are to be avoided." News Desk Editor Margaret Boeth's father, a Mississippi judge, warned her against putting too much stock in the family tree. "It takes three generations to make a lady, and then she'll spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker...
Nation Head Researcher Margaret Boeth, whose family has lived in Mississippi for seven generations, left the South for New York 19 years ago. "When I first arrived and people asked me where I was from, I'd say New York," she laughs. "It was ludicrous, in view of my accent. Now I proudly say I'm from Mississippi...
Much of this expressiveness, like everything else in the region, has black influences. "I'm always behead or behind," complains a black cook in Georgia over the fact that she could never get caught up in her work. In a Mississippi court, recalls TIME'S Margaret Boeth, Southern-born, a black defendant explained his relationship to the common-law wife he had murdered. She was his "much-right" woman, he said. "I figured I had as much right to her as anybody else...