Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, divots and fur flew the length & breadth of the 6,643-yd. Rancho course. The rules allow a player to assume a fair stance, but when Jack Gargan, a Hollywood bit-player, trampled a young sapling to get more elbow room for an approach shot on the 18th hole, his opponent asked for a ruling. Sputtered Gargan, when an official disqualified him: "I wouldn't call a thing like that on my grandmother...
Henderson, who knew many of the newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...
From boyhood, handsome, wry John Gerard (Jack) Werkley wanted to be a reporter. Born 36 years ago in Paterson, N.J., at 17 he got his chance on the Paterson Evening News. Later, at the Missouri School of Journalism, he unofficially majored in the lives of great newsmen. Then, for seven years, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman...
Around the circuits, television was having an effect on attendance (down slightly from 1948) and on the behavior of ballplayers (mugging for the cameras). White Sox Manager Jack Onslow talked of fining one of his pitchers for rolling the catcher's return-throw up one arm, across his shoulders and down the other-for the amusement, Onslow thought, of taproom video friends...
...their best, Lloyd's gags have the simplicity and spontaneity of growing grass. They emerge almost imperceptibly from next to nothing and a moment later become a blooming hayfield of blundering frustrations. At their wildest they have the towering improbability of Jack's beanstalk. His props are the natural pitfalls of daily life. His situations spring from the normal embarrassments of a small-town boy, abnormally innocent and awkward, but gifted with a brash, penultimate courage which always brings...