Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of television is not confined to what is seen on the end of the picture-tube. All that viewers saw or heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted; but this erroneous remark set off an off-camera scratching match between Columnist Winchell, Maxwell and Paar that was as ludicrous as anything visible on TV. See TV & RADIO, The Titans of Babel...
...Senate cloakroom whispers had it last week, the bill sponsored by Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy to regulate $30 billion in pension and welfare funds was safe labor legislation. It had labor's blessing; it would be the only labor bill this session; it would rectify at least some of the fraudulent labor-union practices exposed by the McClellan investigating committee. On these grounds an ample bloc of Democrats and liberal Republicans banded under Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to push the bill through. But they reckoned without California's William Fife Knowland...
Lyndon Johnson worked fast and furiously to head off Big Bill. He got Arkansas' able Lawyer John McClellan to warn against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills...
...them," coach Jack Barnaby said last night. Indeed the visitors rate this concern. Princeton blanked the varsity, 9 to 0, last Spring, and lost only one of its top six players through graduation...
...powerful North Carolina tennis squad came to Cambridge expecting to register a victory over the Crimson, but all the Tarheels managed to win yesterday was one singles match. Coach Jack Barnaby said after the triumph that "the boys played really well," and indeed they...