Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mort Sahl takes as jaundiced a view of The New Frontier (Reprise) as he did of the old. He rakes Bobby Kennedy ("Little Brother is watching you"), Father Joe and Son Jack ("Judge Hardy and Andy"), and the crowds that flock to see Jack Kennedy every Sunday morning: "One of the disadvantages of his new job is that he has to get up and go to church." Kennedy's sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly...
...began in the 1930s, when Father Joe Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Son John F., then a student at Harvard, was often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen...
...Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance to get a hold on boxers"; old Ring Foes Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey agreed that it would help boxing, now "on its last legs." to purge "unsavory" elements...
June 20, jazz will take over the Festival main stage. Langston Hughes, Jimmy Rushing, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee and Joe MacDonald's Festival Jazz Orchestra present "The Blues: Words and Music...
...each flight, as it comes closer to its design speed of 4,000 m.p.h., the experimental X-15 rocket plane usually sets a record. Last week it set another: Test Pilot Joe Walker flew it at 3,370 m.p.h., which is 296 m.p.h. faster than Major Robert White's flight last April 21. Only Russia's Spaceman Yuri Gagarin and the U.S.'s Alan Shepard have ever flown faster. As his ship nosed over, after reaching a peak altitude of 110,000 ft., Walker was weightless for almost a full minute...