Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rambling, brown-shingled house on Irving Street in Cambridge, across the back fence from the Galbraiths', came a steady stream of visitors. "There always seemed to be someone in the spare bed," says Mary McCarthy. "I remember once being asked, 'Do you mind sleeping in Joe Alsop's sheets?' " But among all the diverse types who trooped to the Schlesinger house, Novelist McCarthy cannot recall ever having met a Republican. "Arthur just doesn't like Republicans," she ventures. "There is a certain amount of cow-boys-and-Indians about it." Summers, the Schlesingers shifted their...
...five of the N.F.L.'s first-string quarterbacks were nursing injuries, and Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, who damaged a knee against the Chicago Bears, was lost for the rest of the season. The Unitas of the future may well be the A.F.L.'s $400,000 rookie, Joe Namath of the New York Jets.* Even the N.F.L. coaches are enthusiastic about Namath. "He drops back quickly, releases quickly, has a strong arm and a winning attitude," says a Los Angeles Rams official. "When he gets a good offensive line and capable receivers, he'll really be something...
...last week became something of a cause celebre in Washington, D.C., when he was classified 4-F by the Army because of a bad knee. The Pentagon defended its action in a 600-word statement describing Joe's knee in intimate detail. "This knee," said the Pentagon, "has had the medial meniscus [cartilage] removed; it is a knee which shows that the patient has a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament; it is a knee that has pathology on the lateral side, most likely a torn posterior third of the lateral meniscus with osteoarthritic changes." It was, the report...
Life at the Top continues to follow the spoor of Joe Lampton, the scheming, snarling anti-hero of British Novelist John Braine's Room at the Top. In this movie sequel, based on the sequel to the bestseller, nearly everything has changed except Laurence Harvey's skintight performance as Joe...
...deadly years later, Joe finds that he has risen to the top only to hang there, skewered. The poor little rich girl whom he had to marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive...