Word: hoked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KINGDOMS OF EARTH (249 pp.)-Hoke Norrls-Simon & Schuster...
...hard, when lightnin hit it, is a question of who win, the fire or the wood." The many ways in which the lightning of life strikes the country Negroes of Crooked Creek, and the ways in which they burn or win, form the substance of this book by Hoke Norris, a North Caro linian who works as a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. As a white man try ing to write about Negroes through Negro eyes and Negro mind, he makes a noble try. All the Kingdoms is presented by its author and its publishers as a novel...
...cite these members of the bureaucracy, because their roles are significant on an organization where officers come and go like French cabinets. Two others deserving mention are Mrs. Anna S. Hoke, who did about everything that could be done on the paper as secretary from 1938 to 1946, and Miss Marie Beaupre, Radcliffe '46, the CRIMSON bookkeeper for the past six years...
Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect their beloved ag. And finally on April 9, 1946, the old-timers and hold-overs heartily thanked Art Hopkins and Mrs. Hoke for their yeoman service to the Service News and then threw the CRIMSON back into the lineup. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop 44 Bow St. that day to make things official...
...hands of California disc jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...