Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychology at St. Louis' Washington University, he made a beeline for the newsroom of the St. Louis Star-Times, which was even then mortally ill (it died in 1951). "I picked the Star-Times because it was the lowest-paying place and seemed most likely to hire a kid," says Havemann. He was taken on as a $15-a-week baseball and football writer, two sports that he knew nothing about. Shifted to rewrite man, Havemann ground out 3,000 to 4,000 words a day. "It was great training,'' he says. "I wrote so much that...
Speaking at University Lutheran Church, Shore pointed out that there is no definite way to identify potential delinquents because "not every delinquent is the same. It's only a legal distinction that means a kid has been caught breaking the law, not a classification of people. "Why he did it' is a difficult question...
That brings up the second important reason why basketball at Harvard has something of a "new look" this season--Leo Scully. As they used to say back in New Jersey, where kids used to learn basketball early in life because it's hard to play baseball or football on cement "the kid...
...John Bullish face, who draws for Punch and London's Daily Mail. He meant his Britannia to be looking a little aghast toward America, not Europe. "We're not anti-American in this country, and we understand the breakaway of the American Revolution, but when the kid comes and belts the old girl across the backside it's a bit much," he says. "We are due for a shakeup. It's salutary and good for us. But it's hard too. It's like a successful son saying, 'Open the windows, mother...
...over 60, and all are traditional players of the New Orleans style-a rick-a-tick-tick, free-moving jazz form that is the noblest ancestor of Dixieland. The oldest regular is Papa John Joseph, 85, who still plays a mean bass and is a veteran of the old Kid Ory and King Oliver Creole jazz bands. Papa plays in the company of such old regulars as Trumpeter Punch Miller, 68, and Clarinetist George Lewis, 62. Lewis is among the few jazz pioneers still living. The clarinet on which he composed his classic Burgundy Street Blues has a place...