Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a Chicago Jack Armstrong. His compulsion to serve rises from a father who made him work for his spending money, pumped a little prairie poetry into his views and whetted his appetite to study history, which he did for eleven years. Crane had three brothers, all superachievers, two of whom are running for Congress this fall (the oldest, a Marine jet pilot, was killed in an exhibition flight). If this sounds familiar, rest assured television writers have already called the Cranes the "Kennedys of the Middle West...
...next table, JoEllen Burton, 25, of Dayton studied a rule book while her husband, Jack, helped field-marshal a 15th century Franco-Austrian war. She too is a war gamer. "It was either that or be alone," she confessed. "I finally decided that it's his hobby, so why not get into it?" War gaming is still a bastion of male chauvinism, apparently; JoEllen's tactful explanation is that "too many men feel uncomfortable unless women are very good at it. The group I'm in at home has been very patient with...
...Preposterous." "Profitable. In 1978, a London writer named Michael Dibdin, 31, will offer The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, pitting me against the 1888 slayer of harlots, Jack the Ripper...
...More like a short story, Watson. And hardly new. A Mr. Ellery Queen will have already written A Study in Terror in 1966, postulating that Jack was an aristocrat named the Duke of Shires. Other literature will theorize that the killer was a Scotland Yard inspector or a member of the royal family...
...PLAY'S THE THING--or at least it ought to be. But there are times when a performer so transcends the script that the work seems to be just tagging along for the ride. Jack Lemmon's virtuosity in Bernard Slade's Tribute is a current example, and now Irene Worth has come along to provide another in Corinne Jacker's new play After the Season...