Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cassius Clay? Not this time. California's Governor Pat Brown, 60, was sicking his doggerel on New York's Nelson Rockefeller, 57, betting him "one box of assorted fresh California fruit" that the San Diego Chargers would whip the Bills for the American Football League championship. Nelson, stout feller, staked a crate of New York State apples on it, and after some musing wrote Brown...
Ogden Nash, 62, fled Manhattan in the spring to settle in his old home town of Baltimore (TIME, May 28). Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin shot off a welcome-back letter, and after some meditation the master of quizzical doggerel replied...
...will finish Radcliffe in only three years, has written and produced a play called A Slap in the Faith at Harvard's Loeb Theater ("five acts of doggerel"), is planning to write for the movies and simultaneously "looking forward to being a wife and mother" when she marries a Harvard grad this June. But right now, says Banker David's daughter Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 20, want to enjoy some of the things that go with the name before I stop being a Rockefeller." So for "a lark," she's accepted an invitation to be Queen...
...taught at the universities of Georgia, Chicago, California and Pittsburgh, where he was law dean in 1952. He has edited such journals as Law and Contemporary Problems, been a fellow at California's famed Casbah (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). While delighting law professors with doggerel mockeries of celebrated lawsuits, Currie has built his serious reputation on profound studies of U.S. law's major problem: the conflicts that arise among the legal systems of 50 states and the Federal Government...
...Seventh Avenue, the black Times Square, where orators on soapboxes or folding chairs harangue passersby to "buy black" or "get whitey." In the shadow of the Theresa Hotel, where Fidel Castro plucked his chickens and Cassius Clay celebrated the feathering of his nest, Lewis Michaux composes Black Nationalist doggerel...