Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joe Wellington (Sammy Davis) is a Harlem nobody who wants to be a Big Town somebody, a punk with a yen for a penthouse and all the other Cadillacto-caviar goodies. His aims would immediately classify him as the crassest sort of bourgeois philistine if the musical were not cloaked in the topical sanctity of racial protest...
Along with his other desires, Joe wants Lorna Moon (Paula Wayne), the white mistress of his married fight manager. The love story fails, partly because lovers must be appealing as lovers, interracial or not. Joe, stung by the white world's slights, is full of hate, and no more winning than any other angry young angry. The girl is not a girl but a soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when...
...second period, however, was all Harvard, as halfbacks Joe Gold and Nwachukwu Azikiwe controlled the misplay and captain Peter Millock playing inside back-passed like a varsity...
...cope with the injuries, Penn coach John Stiegman has shuffled his starting backfield like a deck of cards. Bruce Molloy, the starting quarterback, has been moved to fullback. Sophomore Tony Thompson, who started at fullback last week, goes over to right halfback. Senior Joe Schulz moves in at left half...
...hand belonged to Crimson line-backer Joe Donnelly, and he barely god it in front of a fourth-down Dartmouth punt with eight seconds left and the ball on the Indians...