Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fairly often a story in the back carries a nostalgic note that surfaces in an unexpected frame of reference. Like ART'S recollection of the sad night in May, 1925, in the old Madison Square Garden, which was about to be demolished. There was Boxing Announcer Joe Humphreys, bellowing at the crowd with a genuine sob in his voice, delivering an ode to the Garden and the gilded copper nude that stood atop it: "Farewell to thee, O Temple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana...
...aerodynamics laboratory, is the survivor of two prototypes. Needle-nosed, delta-winged and resembling two giant praying mantises, both of the 6-engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that are being used...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Kings Go Forth (1958), adapted from a novel by TIME'S Joe David Brown, an interracial love story played against the background of World War II in southern France, starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Repeat...
Last week when Joe Orton, a brilliant British playwright of 34, was killed, "A Day in the Life" was played at his funeral. "I read the news today, o boy/about a lucky guy who made the grade." It was the perfect comment on a fellow comic artist, and nothing could better have proven the Beatles' uncanny relevance to just about any occasion...
...cast of characters begins in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin and Warren G. Harding, and marches on in these four issues through years in which the figures on center stage range from Herbert Hoover to Booth Tarkington to Clara Bow, from Joe Louis to Adolf Hitler to Virginia Woolf, from Douglas MacArthur to Joe McCarthy to George Orwell. Each issue becomes a history of its year, not only tracing the overriding central themes - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War - but also providing vignettes that help bring people alive...