Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently read with considerable dismay Joe Dalton's review of Peter Gent's book, Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, in the March 23 Crimson. Although I have not read Gent's book and thus have no comment about Dalton's treatment of it, there are enough gratuitous salvos against my home state of Texas in the course of the review to merit this response...
...scenes from that famous first televised debate. Nixon was recovering from a staph infection, and his gray visage was transmogrified into a haggard, glowering, shifty-eyed mask by the same cameras that broadcast a fresh, vigorous Kennedy. Nixon learned the lesson and in his second race, as Joe McGinniss documents in The Selling of the President, he paid much attention to such minutiae as makeup and stage gestures. Said the candidate to one TV cue man: "Now when you give me the 15-second cue, give it to me right under the camera. So I don't shift...
Gast's replacement on the hill, freshman Bob Adrion, faired even worse. His first pitched sailed wild and allowed Bingham to score, and his next few pitches resulted in a sacrifice, a Joe Wark double, a two-base throwing error, and ultimately, a 6-1 deficit...
Meanwhile the batsmen had come through to tie the game in the top of the sixth. After Burke St. John reached on an error and Joe Wark walked, junior Bobby Kelley banged a double into right center field to pull Harvard within to one. Mike Stenhouse then scored Kelley with a single to right to make...
...Alevizos, Paul McOsker (5), Ron Stewart (5) and Joe Wark...