Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coaches: $6,500), plus handsome bonuses and a high-priced side job as a TV football commentator, the Eagles got Charles Hinton Moser Jr., 39, a solid Missourian who played center for the University of Missouri and ripped up opposing lines in the late 1930s. A deep-voiced, ingratiating joiner, Coach Moser shook hands, made friends, and built a team whose drawing power earned the money for a brand-new $50,000 field house. After a winning season his first year on the job, Chuck was presented with a new Buick by members of the Eagles' Boosters Club...
...Prizefights. Even as they burn their mortgages, contribute heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend...
...equally revealing. Jett Rink, the lonely and withdrawn poor white who strikes oil to become the richest man in Texas, represents, if anything, the Outsider. He may also represent Class Conflict, or Sudden Wealth. The confusion is significant--Hollywood does not know what to do with Jett, the non-joiner, does not know to what to ascribe his "peculiarity." This uncertainty probably stems from the fact that America offers few existing outsider "types" to work from...
...Late Joiner. At first, Britain was not I in on this act. Britain was still busy try-I ing to outbid Nasser for leadership of the I Arab world. Early in October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only...
PERSONALITY: Brown-haired, blue-eyed, meditative, Burney is married (two children), likes to read American history, plays golf in the mid-80s, enjoys swimming with his family at the pool of their apartment 'house in Alexandria, Va. An active joiner of medical organizations, he enjoys working with Boy Scout groups, helps them in health and safety work...