Word: hackensacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher...
Bell grew up "a dutiful child" in a respectable middle-class family of Hackensack,N.J. After taking an A.B. at the University of Michigan in 1937, he got a few minor roles on Broadway, then drifted into radio, where he was immediately typed as a criminal...
...nice," says Bell, "if you can stand the disgrace. I am the shame of Hackensack. My poor father can't go out of the house without being taunted about the three more people his son just murdered...
...Sale. In Hackensack, N.J., a salesgirl, subpoenaed for jury duty, replied politely: "In answer to your letter, I am not interested in your offer. I have a good...
...particular place, be it the unending bleakness of West Philadelphia, or the strident shrillness of a chromium-and-glass bar. His only mistake is unbelievably bad. In the otherwise excellent payroll robbery scene, the presence of palm trees in the background make the fact that it ostensibly occurs in Hackensack, N. J., a little tough to take...