Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movie critics are born and not made, at least if the professional development of TIME'S Jay Cocks is at all representative. "Even before I could read," he says, "I looked at the movie ads in the papers rather than the comics." Naturally, as a kid Cocks lived on a steady and omnivorous diet of films, but stopped short of skipping school to sit goggle-eyed before the big screen. "My parents were both educators, so hooky was out of the question." At Kenyon College in 1966, Cocks organized the campus' first film festival, then joined TIME...
...Today show, Critic Gene Shalit said he would like to be a conductor. Immediately, the Long Island Rail Road offered him a job. Then the Orchestral Society of Westchester came up with something better: it asked Shalit to lead a concert last week in the garden of Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving his baton, Shalit said...
After he liberalized curfews, merchants at a nearby shopping center complained about shoplifting; the open-campus policy has since been curtailed. Old-guard alumni, and even some of the boys, are alarmed at the new permissiveness. "Now you can get away with anything," says Jay Salyers...
Born. On July 30, to Jay and Nancy Hoffman, a beautiful daughter, Tina. Tina will grow up to become the world's most beautiful woman...
...Died. Jay Hanna ("Dizzy") Dean, 63, Hall of Fame pitcher and language-mangling sportscaster; of a heart attack; in Reno. Son of an Okie sharecropper, Dean was scouted off a Texas sandlot, and won 18 games in 1932, his first full year with the St. Louis Cardinals. Two years later, his 30 victories along with 19 by his brother Paul ("Daffy"), led the Gashouse Gang to the pennant; the brothers won two games apiece as the Cards took the World Series. Compulsively impish, Dean approached the Boston Braves' bench before one game and announced with characteristic corn-pone bravado...