Word: joel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swampland. Joel, a boy of 13, journeys east from New Orleans in the summer to find his father, whom he has never seen, at a lonely place called Skully's Landing. It is a journey into mysteries and wonders. From the town of Noon City he is taken in a slow wagon, by an ancient Negro named Jesus Fever, down a swampland road into night and sleep. He opens his eyes on a vivid morning scene...
...expanse of pale yellow wall separated two harshly sunlit windows which faced the bed. Between these windows stood the woman. She did not notice Joel, for she was staring across the room at an ancient bureau: there, on top of a lacquered box, was a bird, a bluejay perched so motionless it looked like a trophy. The woman turned and closed the only open window; then, with prissy little sidling steps, she started forward...
...woman, who is his father's wife, Miss Amy, proceeds to hit the bluejay with a poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that...
...election of the following officers to next year's executive board: Selig S. Harrison '48, of Winthrop House and Pittsburgh, Pa., as President; William S. Fairfield '50, of Eliot House and Milwaukee, Wis. as Managing Editor; Paul Sack '48, of Winthrop House and Yonkers, N. Y., as Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, of Dunster House and Pleasant Valley, Pa., as Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, of 74 Phillips Street and Short Hills, N. J., as Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, as Photographic Chairman; and Thomas C. Simons '50, of Eliot House and Oakland...
When Nathan died, Maurice lost his zest for business. He got to brooding about the thing that had killed his brother -cancer. One day he announced: "From now on, all I want is to see cancer licked." As soon as the two younger Goldblatt brothers, Joel and Louis, returned from the war, Maurice turned the family's 15-store, $86-million-a-year business over to them and went out to fight cancer...