Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for Captain Cleveland, a midafternoon kiddy show on Cleveland's WKBF-TV. The host, Ventriloquist John Slowey, slipped lavaliere mikes around the necks of his young dummy, "Private Clem," and of the guest of the day. "What do I call you-your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since...
...Captain Cleveland is aimed at children from three to ten, and the Private Clem and Mr. Mayor colloquies are designed to interest the kids in government and, by implication, good race relations. Clem's questions run from "Do you own the city?" to "Is the policeman my friend?" At one point, after Stokes explained that the police are responsible for protecting property, Clem noted: "That's why I can keep my bicycle in front of my house and no one takes it." Replied Stokes: "But don't you do that too much...
Virtually unnoticed at the time, Cleveland's Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology quietly merged ten months ago into a single school. Only last week, in the festivities formally installing its first president, Robert Warren Morse, 46, did the new institution finally allow itself some of the fanfare appropriate to its status...
...with the formation of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland now boasts one of the nation's largest private universities-a science-minded school that ranks ahead of Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago in both faculty size (1,200) and graduate enrollment (4,547), and ahead of both Dartmouth and Duke in terms of endowment ($138 million...
...fall of '75, Jim Kubacki rose from the ranks of anonymity to lead Harvard to its first undisputed Ivy League football title. In so doing, the junior from Cleveland set Crimson one-game and season total offense records. While Harvard dipped to third place in the standings the next fall, Kubacki still performed admirably enough to conclude his career as Harvard's all-time passing and total offense leader. As a result of these accomplishments, then, it was only fitting that Kubacki was selected to participate in one of the season's numerous post-season bowl games, right...