Word: joe
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...picture of the 1868 Alabama legislature, which had ratified the 14th Amendment guaranteeing citizens "due process" of law. Nearly one-third of the men in the picture were Negroes. "I keep it as a historical curiosity," said Patterson. He gestured toward a picture of Confederate General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Wheeler.*"I'm related to Wheeler. My mother's mother's mother was a Wheeler...
...only 2500 of an expected 20,000 turned out at Boston U. Field to see him perform on Ted Kennedy's so-called Physical Fitness program. He shouldn't have been. What is to be gained by watching an average, overweight retired outfielder hit a couple off retired pitcher Joe Coleman? Is that conducive to robust health...
Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH...
...publisher ever spent more off hours mingling with the hurrying crowd than Joe Patterson. He not only filled his paper with lively stuff-plenty of comics, features, serialized fiction, puzzle contests and the best picture spreads in town-but he knew just how to sell the "important but dull" story to the gum-chewers. News editorials generally read like street-corner arguments, a tribute in part to Patterson, who once rejected an editorial because "it reads too much as though an editorial writer had written it," and to Chief Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, who knew how to transfer the boss...
Died. George Wilson ("Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington...