Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bedeviled by a blight of interdictions and animadversions against AAA by processors, judges and Senators, nervous AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis has kept his tongue & temper fairly well under control. Last week his attention was called to the following advertisement in the Joplin, Mo. Globe...
William F. Wood, M.D. Tufts '17 has been appointed Assistant Medical Adviser; Herbert D. Adams, M.D. '29, has been appointed Assistant Surgical Adviser; George F. Wilkins, M.D. '32 has also been appointed Assistant Surgical Adviser; Robert J. Joplin, M.D. '28, has been appointed Assistant Surgical Adviser in medical charge of the Freshman football squad...
...Joplin, Mo. last week a toothless old man quavered to interviewers: "I'd like to be left out of all this. . . . They chose their path years ago, and I chose mine...
...Artist Benton gave up a job as surveyor's assistant in the lead and zinc district outside Joplin to do newspaper cartoons. A bad art student in .Chicago, he went on to Paris where he speedily absorbed and copied all the latest French fads. Six Wartime months in the U. S. Navy knocked French Impressionism out of him, prompted him to develop a style of his own which he first exhibited in a series of realistic watercolors of War activities around Norfolk...
...Your Old Gray Bonnet" (1909) was written by Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...