Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become the leading TV newscaster of his time. For seven years at CBS, he and Fred Friendly, now president of CBS News, produced a provocative news special, See It Now, which courted controversy in notoriously timid medium. Their most famous program was a devastatingly understated attack on Senator Joe McCarthy in his heyday. Murrow also broadcast the news for 15 minutes every weekday night for 13 years, beginning each program with the solemn intonation: "This ... is ... the . . . news." Murrow hosted a lightweight but highly profitable program, Person to Person, in which he invaded two celebrities' homes each week...
...Crimson pounded out 19 hits, eight of them for extra bases, while pitchers John Scott and Jim McCandlish held the Bruins fairly well in check. First baseman Joe O'Donnell, Harvard's leading hitter, did the most damage. He went five for seven from the plate, batted in five runs and socked one gigantic homer over the center-field fence of the Bruins' ballpark...
...broad jump is another virtual toss-up. Harvard's Aggrey Awori and Harvey Thomas are the only two competitors who have topped 22 ft. this spring, but B.C.'s Joe Kopka and B.U.'s Ed Johnson lead a host of 21 ft-plus jumpers who will be right at their heels...
Harvard stayed in the game, but just barely, as Joe O'Donnell led off the second with a long fly to right. Penn's Dave Felser skittered around desperately under the ball while the Harvard bench cawed "Sun! Sun!" When Felser obligingly let the fly drop behind him, O'Donnell plowed into third and scored moments later on Dan Hootstein's single. The Crimson scored another run in the third without a hit to set up the decisive rally...
Harvard's Art Morrison, Joe Smith, Watts, and Mike Hauk won the relay with a time of 44.3, but Brown the mile relay...