Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Holy Cross in last week's triangular meet that included Rhode Island State's overpowering squad. Owen Edmonds, another sophomore, carries a large lead of responsibility, according to Coach Mikkola. Dave Calrns and John Panky also appear vitally necessary for the Crimson, as de Dick White and Captain Joe Leeming...
...Leeming injured his foot in practice several weeks ago, the Crimson's record might be somewhat better this season. But if he can return to action against Dartmouth tomorrow, Joe is sure to give the team a lift...
...Joe had a pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch...
Whose Lead Quarter? The Best of Intentions is Joe's confession, not of his sins, but of his frustrations-the fights he backed out of, the infidelities unconsummated, the arguments with the salesman who tried to sell him a suit he didn't want and with the cafeteria cashier who refused to take back a lead quarter...
...crowning blow to Joe's self-esteem was that the girl he loved in his boyhood became a popular novelist and wrote a book in which he found himself pictured as a tough guy, with quaint phrases and vague literary aspirations. It was true enough to make him wince and wrong enough to make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than...