Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compulsion. The individualism of William Proxmire has become more and more apparent in the three years since he took over the seat once held by the late Joe McCarthy. At first Proxmire tried valiantly to be a model freshman, voting right and listening to his seniors speak. But the compulsion to talk soon overcame him. and Proxmire wound up his first semester with a two-hour preamble to a filibuster that quickly killed a bill which would have diverted water from Lake Michigan into Chicago's sewage disposal system. Later, he spoke rudely about the iron rule of Majority...
...last handmade brick on the first building in 1856. They owed the contractors $1,100; the treasury was empty. While they frantically passed the hat, the builders slapped a judgment on the Rev. J. W. Anderson, future secretary of the college. The Rev. Mr. Anderson owned a Negro named Joe -a strapping young man easily worth $1,100 on the slave market in nearby Asheville. Some say that Joe himself volunteered to be a human surety. The builders took him to jail for safekeeping. Four days later, when the founders raised the cash. Mars Hill was saved...
After the Civil War. Anderson rewarded Joe with a piece of land near the campus. Joe started raising a big crop of descendants. Now one of them. Oralene Graves. 18, an honor graduate of Asheville's Stephens-Lee (Negro) High School, wants to go to college to be a schoolteacher. Mars Hill, which feels that "it's no news when a Christian institution accepts a Negro" (though Mars Hill had never done so), was delighted to enroll Joe Anderson's great-granddaughter...
...Johnson City, Coach Joe Lucco has put Jones to work in relief assignments. "Mike has a strong arm," he explains, "but we're just nursing him along. We don't let him pitch more than 70 balls at a time. Then he gets four days of rest." Object: to have Jones ready for the big league after several more seasons of seasoning. His coaches think that shy Mike Jones will make...
...roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened his "bum of the month," hockey players scuffled, the circus came indoors, 2,500 pedigreed dogs paraded each year for the Westminster Dog Show, and Billy Graham made mass conversions. Last week the Garden prepared to move again. Its current owner, the Graham-Paige Corp.,† announced plans...