Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
Bowles really did get the point when friends reminded him of two news stories by the President's good friends Columnist Joe Alsop and the Chattanooga Times's Charlie Bartlett, which detailed Bowles's difficulties. The stories, plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head...
...sooner was the date set than Hoffa flew to Chicago to help Pal Joey. At a mass meeting of drivers, he blasted Abata, warned that "he wants to take away your bargaining power." He also pulled a typical Hoffa trick. Just as onetime Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had been brought into court four years ago to impress eight Negro jurors when Hoffa was on trial for bribery, the Teamsters' boss enlisted Track Star Jesse Owens to impress Local 777's large Negro membership. Said Owens: "The situation of some Negro cab drivers is pretty good now. It wasn...
...that the men do look like that at the front. Then I asked him if he wanted me to make inaccurate pictures of the men. He said no-he didn't want me to do that. Then he changed the subject." From the encounter, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-emerged in unrepentant triumph...
Along the way, there are some arresting scenes: Joe Kennedy, the silent partner in his son's campaign, working quietly and effectively among his friends and associates to bring 80 of New York's 114 convention delegates into camp. Or an elated Dick Nixon, watching the nervous, weary image of Jack Kennedy delivering his acceptance speech on his TV screen and deciding then and there that the television debates would be a pushover: "The Vice President offered the observation that he thought it a poor performance, way over people's heads, too fast. He could take this...