Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Ziegler...
...Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated, from tern of the screw to Comintern. A single-joke book, but a funny one, deserving of a big ternout. If the bird book rises from the dictionary, Hamburger Madness by Jack Ziegler bounces off the wall. The New Yorker's resident screwball, Ziegler is famous for muses that beckon the writer away from his work and toward a bar, and a bank with a sign that reads TIME: 4:32. TODAY'S WEATHER: SHOES...
...foundation gave the endowment fund to Harvard in honor of the founders of the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Ethel and Jack Hausman and Isabel and Leonard H. Goldenson...
...eerie when 12 months later you find that Gene Purdy's broken wrist will keep him out six to eight weeks, that George Hughes's bum knee will sideline him at least through tomorrow's game, and that Jack Hughes will also be out as the result of a suspension for fighting in the third period of the Minnesota-Duluth game. It's eerie, and you can't help but feel that once the cycle is broken, the New Year will start indeed...
What of Ann Whitefield (Ann Sachs), the girl to whom Jack must succumb even though he pursues his bachelor freedom across all of Europe in a touring car? She must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...