Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published, "the normal Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Middletown, U.S.A." to whom it is frankly addressed, have come to regard Temple Fielding as a sort of traveler's Dr. Spock?a role he relishes. "If Temp has a cause, and I think he has one," says his chief assistant, Joe Raff, "it is to ease the passage of the traveler, to assuage his doubts...
Fielding calls his staff his "family." It consists of Temple, his wife Nancy ("My Nancy"), Joe Raff (ex-managing editor of the Rome Daily American), Raff's wife Judy and Robert Bone, formerly of TIME Inc.'s Book Division. Each Fielding family member has a nickname, which
Liller and "Jamesian Joe" Butwin tied for the MVP award. A special citation for duty above and beyond the call went to Jerry "Bull"Gerst, the corn-fed lowan, for stealing home from first on a pop fly and two errors and scoring the winning run. Gerst suffered multiple lacerations of the knees, but Stillman reports that he will be able to play in next week's rematch...
...Director John Schlesinger sometimes seems less interested in Buck and Rizzo than in himself, covering his film with a haze of stylistictics and baroque decorations. Buck's involuntary memory provides him with a series of erotic flashbacks; the film illustrates them with the primitivity of a comic book. Joe's heterosexual encounters are treated with suppressed smirks. During one love session he bounces up and down on a TV remote control, so that Schlesinger can represent his athletics with quick TV clicks of Al Jolson in blackface, a bishop preaching and a Stegosaurus lunging through a forest...
...trip to Henley. In 1966, they won the Thames Cup, but last year the Crimson was eliminated in the first race of the five-day regatta by a good Cornell boat. Harvard was unfortunate enough to be in a lane where the current was not at all favorable, but Joe Bracewell, stroke of the Crimson boat said, "We might have lost anyway...