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Sitting in the University of Cincinnati's Nippert Stadium one June night in 1960, a stocky, crew-cut man gloomily watched a lanky, 6-ft. 5-in. Negro walk up to collect his diploma. The spectator's name was Ed Jucker, and he had just been named Cincinnati's basketball coach. The Negro's name was Oscar Robertson, and he was the best college basketball player of his time. Graduating with "The Big O" were two other starters from a flashy squad that ranked No. 2 in the nation the season before. "I was sick," recalls...
...repudiate your resolution, Buster, and your pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou title of 'Americanism chairman.' " When Ohio Republican Congressman Gordon Sherer joined forces with the Legion, Young devastated him in one grandly irrelevant blast: "While I was on the Anzio beachhead* he was Safety Director of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...scholarly-looking. Bishop Burgess, 53. was elected on solid qualifications. He did advanced study in sociology at the University of Michigan be fore graduating from the Episcopal Theo logical School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over four white...
Died. John Shubert, 53, dour, second-generation head of a backstage family that owned and ran the nation's biggest chain of legitimate theaters (17 of the 33 on Broadway, others in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati); of a heart attack; aboard a train bound for Florida. True to Shubert's instructions, his funeral took place on the stage of the Majestic Theater, with his widow seated by the casket, and some 1,200 mourners and business associates in the orchestra and balconies. No clergy officiated at the rites held, as the theater owner requested...
Land & Water. Cincinnati, which has long fretted about its blighted waterfront district along the Ohio River only a few blocks from downtown, approved a $16,600,000 bond issue to clean up 128.5 acres of dank and decaying buildings. In their place will go a convention hall, five 30-story luxury apartment buildings, a park, a pool, a marina and motel-boatel catering both to passing motorists and yachtsmen...