Word: palatka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
That debut was typical of Jordan's career, played out in the melancholy minor league towns of Davenport, Iowa; Waycross, Ga.; and Palatka, Fla. The games, Jordan notes, seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...