Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Country Joe and the Fish live in a kind of superworld--a turned-on bastion of people together and peace and independence. "The time has come for us to create a world where nobody strongarms us," Joe MacDonald, the group's lead singer and spokesman, said last Friday night at a dirty, overprcied little dump in Boston called the Psychedelic Supermarket...
...Fish are as proficient musically as Joe is lyrically. Barry Nelson, the lead guitar player, who sings most of the group's boisterous songs, David Cohen, the organist, Bruce Barthol on bass, and Chicken Hirsch on the drums are all freaked out to various degrees, all, as Barry put it, "avoiding the draft" (presumably through mental or psychological deferments) and all superb musicians...
...paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois...
Connoisseur & Speculator. If that fight was a connoisseur's delight, Frazier's drubbing of Mathis was a speculator's dream. Back in 1965, a group of plungers risked $250 a share to form Cloverlay Inc., whose sole asset was Joe Frazier's punching power. Cloverlay agreed to pay Frazier's manager and training expenses, guarantee Joe $100 a week. Joe has repaid his stockholders handsomely. Some fight fans could protest that Frazier was not in the same class with deposed Champion Cassius Clay-and they might be right-yet he clearly proved last week that...
GLIMPSE OF A STRANGER by Joe David Brown. 279 pages. Morrow...