Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patent Office because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles changed in curious relation to their law clerks...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 64, France's jack-of-all-theatrics, wartime favorite of the Nazis, but officially cleared of collaboration charges; and Leading Lady Ecaterina ("Lana") Marconi, 26; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Paris...
...William J. Bingham made a statement Wednesday afternoon. No one but Jack Durant of the Associated Press knows exactly what he said, but everybody knows he shouldn't have said...
...Algie Allen, who worked as a pair last season, are back; but they both graduate in February. Jack Carman and Bob DiBlasio form a great big pair; but both men are still adapting them selves from football. The other available defensemen are the sophomores...
Their foe in Pasadena on Jan. 2 would be California, the Pacific Coast Conference's all-conquering champions, who got a scare from arch-rival Stanford last week. Stanford was ahead, 14-12, in the third period, when Jack Swaner, California's star halfback, began to run wild. Final score: California 33, Stanford...