Word: steamboat
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...Continental Congress and a U.S. judge. Many of the miniatures, and not the worst, went unsigned, like the deft portrait of youthful Navyman Oliver Hazard Perry. A miniaturist celebrated in other fields was Robert Fulton, who painted Perry's wife, but went on to make the first successful steamboat...
Joel Wechsler has placed himself at the helm of Thursday night's JAZZ STEAMBOAT where he delights in satisfying traditionalists with a half-hour of pure Dixie and New Orleans jazz. And finally, every Friday Greg Dickerson is found behind the double glass windows; the name of the show which brings you the exciting sounds of the big bands is JAZZ BANDSTAND...
Died. Joseph Patrick ("Holy Joe") Boyle, 65, bland, blue-eyed longtime ward heeler for Memphis' E. H. ("Boss") Crump, who became police commissioner in 1940, gave the old steamboat town the cold-water blues by kicking out its gamblers, shutting down its bordellos; after a stroke; in Memphis...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo...
John Monroe Johnson, 78, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1950, retired. "Steamboat" Johnson was appointed to the regulatory agency by President Roosevelt in 1940, won President Truman's blessing after he refused to step down at the mandatory retirement age of 70. A civil engineer, Johnson served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American War, was chief engineer in the Rainbow Division in France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members...