Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the duel of the dollars was still pretty much a standoff. The American Football League had signed four of its eight top draft choices; the National Football League had signed nine out of 14. The big battle was yet to be fought-over Alabama Quarterback Joe Namath, who has a date in the Orange Bowl and cannot be bought until New Year's Day. A fine drop-back passer, in the mold of Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, Namath is a special case: he is a No. 1 draft choice in both the A.F.L...
...across-the-board increase any time soon." He is calm about defending his market-a market he knows the way the old-time grocer knew his customers-and he promises: "We shall give a very good account of ourselves." As usual, everyone in Pittsburgh knows exactly what Joe Block means...
Died. Joseph Morrell Dodge, 74, Detroit banker and a top U.S. economic troubleshooter; of complications following a heart attack; in Detroit. An unbending advocate of sound money and tight credit, Joe Dodge came to the attention of the White House in the early 1940s after he managed to convert a Depression casualty into the prosperous Detroit Bank & Trust Co. (present assets: $1.2 billion). Called upon to try his fiscal therapy on the inflation-plagued economies of postwar Germany and Japan, he became one of the chief architects of their phenomenal booms by counseling devalued currency and balanced budgets. Then...
...PHILLY JOE JONES & ELVIN JONES TOGETHER (Atlantic), Two top drummers (no kin) trade solos in triumphant tattoos and combine in layered rhythms to launch some short flights by Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Pianist Wynton Kelly and other swingers. Philly Joe rattles the right stereo, Elvin the left...
Notre Dame marched to the Southern Cal 9- only to lose the ball on a fumble Back came the Irish again, and this time Fullback Joe Kantor got the touchdown - only to have it nullified by a holding penalty. By now it was the fourth quarter, and bored sportswriters amused themselves by making bets on what the Notre Dame margin would...