Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whispers of "Communist association" had begun soon after Jack Javits declared his candidacy for Senator Herbert Lehman's seat (TIME, Sept. 10). Their only public source was Jay Sourwine, one time (1950-56) counsel to the subcommittee, who was seeking the Democratic nomination as U.S. Senator from Nevada (he ran a poor last in last week's primary). Before the committee, Javits faced a basic question: Had he, after his release from the Army in 1945, sought the help of Communists or of the Communist-dominated American Labor Party in his first bid for Congress on the Republican...
...charge that he had sought the support of the A.L.P., he admitted that the thought had crossed his mind until a Liberal Party leader had told him: " 'Don't you know, Jack, that this A.L.P. crowd are Commie-dominated?' And then I said I want no part of them . . . Aside from the muddle I may have been in in the 1946 campaign, when I was new on the job. I had no doubts about the A.L.P. there after...
...Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta Story. Jack Benny returns this month from a successful BBC stint loaded with film shot in Europe (including a Paris show with Benny and Maurice Chevalier). In November the U.S. Air Force joins forces with CBS Public Affairs in a 26-part series called Air Power, "the story of flight and its impact...
...Bill Mauldin war without the saving grace of Mauldin's humor. A beat-up infantry company attached to a National Guard division is fighting its way across Belgium and taking heavy losses because of the cowardice of its captain (Eddie Albert). After one disastrous assault, Lieuts. Jack Palance and William Smithers turn mutinous, but are pacified when Battalion Commander Lee Marvin (who is protecting Eddie Albert to advance his own postwar political career back in the States) assures them that the company is being withdrawn from the front...
...take command even when Eddie Albert is totally incapacitated by fear. The acting has the same black-and-white simplicity as the theme; it will be a long time, fortunately, before any movie displays such abject terror as that of Eddie Albert or such preposterous heroics as those of Jack Palance...