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...something's up in the Bear's backyard. Alabama President Joab L. Thomas '55, who holds three Harvard degrees, established new standards for his school's football program in announcing the appointment of Bill Curry as head coach. Thomas hired Curry for three reasons: first, personal integrity; second, a commitment to improving the academic performance of his players; and third--and last--desire...
...dumb son of a bitch was trying to be fair, not shrewd." Dialogues between exasperated father and nincompoop son appear to be modeled on the old radio sketches of Jack Benny and Dennis Day. David: "Do you understand what I'm saying to you about Joab? Do not let his hoar head go peacefully down to the grave." Solomon: "What's a hoar head?" After one particularly frustrating session, David tries to get rid of the young man by telling a servant to "show him the door." Replies Solomon: "I've seen the door...
...said King David to his downcast general, Joab, during a battle with the Ammonites for the city that is today the Jordanian capital of Amman. And so said Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week in similar circumstances. Dayan was in the port city of Eilat, surveying the capsized hulk of an Israeli supply ship sunk by Egyptian limpet mines, when he quoted the Second Book of Samuel. Hours later, as if in response to his exhortation, Israeli airmen over the Gulf of Suez sank an Egyptian mine layer that normally carries a crew...
...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...
...fleeting friendliness reminded New York Timesman Arthur Krock of II Samuel 20:9-10, describing the meeting of Joab and Amasa at the great stone of Gibeon: "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he [Joab] smote him therewith in the fifth...