Word: kenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic women telephone workers called "Our Lady of the Bell," and averages 600 calls a day. The state of Washington has at least 17 telephone prayer services; when Seattle's University Presbyterian Church installed one last June, calls jammed lines for five hours, blew fuses, and threw the Kenwood exchange out of commission until the telephone company put in supplementary "disaster" service. In San Francisco the Christian Evangelical Church claims some 100,000 calls each month. And in booming Los Angeles, the Y.M.C.A.'s Dial-for-Inspiration handles an average 10,000 calls every 24 hours...
...This Is Very It." North Adams is proud to have him back. More than 200 kids met him at the airport when he arrived to set up his headquarters at the Kenwood Camp for children. A local bartender is peddling a concoction known as an "Archie Moore Knockout Cocktail...
...pitches on their softball team, joins them in archery, and sometimes says grace over their dinner table. Once he brought Manhattan Jazzman Lucky Thompson and his tenor sax to the camp for a concert. There are 200 tape-recorded hours of Lucky's music on hand at Kenwood. Progressive jazz floats incessantly through the pines and maples. "Lucky is my rhythm man," Archie explains. "He plays while I skip rope, and this makes a pulsation which keeps me in time. We're artists who appreciate each other's work...
...Honorable Man. Somehow, Archie finds time for work, too. He is up at 5 every morning for a four-mile jog with his 14-year-old pacer, Bobby Cormier. Younger Kenwood boys follow the runners as far as they can, but usually drop out before long. Later come the calisthenics, the bag work and at least three rounds of sparring. Everything is nicely calculated to send Archie into the ring a rock-hard 185 lbs. on Sept. 20 against the fearsome, favored (1-3½) Rocky Marciano...