Word: bogan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago is on the verge of a racial explosion," declares the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Operation PUSH is pushing for better education. "Busing means the destruction of our neighborhoods, and we're going to fight for our survival," replies Housewife Connie Schaefer, president of the Bogan community council, which represents the largely blue-collar Bogan-Marquette Park areas, one of the last all-white enclaves on Chicago's Southwest Side...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Ill., 800 students from Bogan High School gather in the ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged...
...ranks. To be sure, Calvin Hill was Rookie of the Year in 1969. But usually, there is a conspicuous paucity of Ivy League players chosen in the draft. This year was no different: Blackman's covey of Dartmouth seniors was passed by with one exception-cornerback Willie Bogan, who was selected by Baltimore in the eighth round. This is the same group which dominated the All-Ivy team with seven first team selections...
...only score in the second quarter came on an exciting Brown pass play. Quarterback Dan Bogan flipped a short pass to Dominic Starsia who then lateralled to Bruce Watson who scored to give Brown a 12-3 lead...
Died. Louise Bogan, 72, distinguished American lyric poet; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "I have no fancy ideas about poetry," Miss Bogan once remarked. "It is something you have to work hard at." And work she did, from 1931 to 1969 as writer and poetry critic for The New Yorker, and as the author of six volumes of verse. A consummate lyricist, she wrote with forceful emotion and maturity, as in "Juan's Song...