Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridge on the River Kwai (at the Capri). Deserved winner of 7 Academy Awards, with consummate performances by Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa, and fine assists from Jack Hawkins and the cameraman...
...Married. Jack Webb, 37, petroform cinemactor (The D.I.), creator and star of radio and TV's Dragnet: and Jackie Loughery (rhymes with Crockery), 28, Flatbush-born Miss United States of 1952, now a TV and cinema starlet; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress-Songstress Julie [Cry Me a River] London); in Van Nuys, Calif...
...shrewdness, bravery and romanticism of such escapades Nelson wore through life like his own elegant uniforms. He served as a ship's captain at 20, and soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his comrades.) He lost the sight of his right eye as a result of a wound suffered during the siege of Calvi on Corsica, and his arm storming the fortified town of Tenerife with a force of sailors in longboats...
Cocky and supremely self-confident, Jack Westrope rode to win-and let the stewards look out for the horse or rider who got in his way. Set down for a variety of race-track offenses-both afoot and horseback-Jack Westrope talked back to track stewards, fought back in the courts. And sooner or later he always got back on some good mounts. He was never again the country's leading rider, but he won a total of 2,467 races, and he rode his mounts to winnings...
...knew better than Jack Westrope the dangers of his profession. His older brother was also a jockey, and he was killed in a spill at Tijuana in 1932. Last week Jack went out to ride the King Ranch's Well Away at Hollywood Park with his old, slashing style. A quarter-mile from the wire the filly began to lug in. Westrope stood up in the stirrups and walloped her on the head to keep her from bolting off the track. Nothing worked. His mount threw him onto the rail, and he died of multiple fractures and internal injuries...