Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Supersalesman Matthew J. Culligan took over NBC radio in 1956, its operations were a staggering $3,000,000 in the red. Within three years, Joe Culligan had set the radio network to humming profitably along again. Later, as president of the beleaguered Curtis Publishing Co., his skill at troubleshooting misfired, and he was forced out after an executive-suite revolt. But, as he is fond of saying, "a comeback career seems to be my lot." Now he has gone back to radio, this time as president of the nation's biggest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System. Culligan wants...
...first time he took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down the pike in Beaver Falls, Pa., named Joe Willie Namath...
Hanratty had nothing personal against Namath-who was already off at Alabama building a reputation for flinging and swinging that would later win him a $400,000 contract with the pro New York Jets. What bugged Terry was that people were forever comparing him with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown...
...would you believe Joe Masteroff, John Kandor, and Fred Ebb? These three are responsible for the book, music, and lyrics to Cabaret, in which Miss Lenya struggles through turgid material of a sort usually left to the likes of Molly Picon...
...Stempson and Jim Smith, who were trying for a triple dead heat along with McLoone, were judged third and fourth, respectively, with the same time. Junior Dick Howe rounded out the scoring 20 seconds later, and he was soon followed by classmates Jim Baker and Joe Ryan...