Word: welched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, Welch was a brilliant member of the class of 1917. He continued to sell maps in the summer. In Boston he met Judith Lyndon, a lively Georgia girl attending Emerson College. In 1917, he and Judith were married...
Deliverance from Temptation. Though Welch is a superb actor, he is no lightweight; he has a foxy, seasoned legal mind. With 35 years of courtroom fencing behind him, Welch has a sharp eye for phonies. It was he who first recognized the doctored photograph for what it was; last week he was the first to spot McCarthy's spurious "FBI letter" (see above...
Though at 63 Joe Welch has the manner of a Louisburg Square patrician, he comes from the plainest Midwestern pioneer stock. Both his parents were English-born. Father William Welch ran away to sea at 14, wandered the world for 15 years (including a three-month hitch with the British army during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857), finally immigrated to his brother's' farm in Illinois and married the hired girl. William Welch was a simple man and good, but in his years at sea, he developed an abiding affection for the bottle. Martha Welch decided to remove...
...Welches were poor, and as a boy Joe worked hard. His great pleasure, even then, was to slip down to the courthouse and watch the trials. "I was impressed by the fact that a lawyer could say something and then say, 'Strike it out,' " Welch recalls. "That seemed to me to be a particularly godlike quality." After two years of clerking in a real estate office, he entered Grinnell College-with $600 that he had saved. Summers, he stored up money for more education by selling state maps from door to door for $1.95 (Joe got the dollar...
Backyard Chat. Welch finished at Grinnell with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain and a $600 Harvard scholarship in his pocket. "The night before I was to leave for Harvard Law School," he recalls, "my father and I went out back to attend to our needs before we went to bed, and then he got a drink of water at the pump and sat down stiffly. I knew that meant I was to sit down...