Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...
...past, the Academy has seemed in grave danger of handing out more Emmy Awards than it had members. Last week the winners' categories were cut down to 28. Even so, Comedian Jack Benny staggered visibly under the honor of having turned in 1957's "best continuing performance (male) in a series by a comedian, singer, host, dancer, master of ceremonies, announcer, narrator, panelist or any person who essentially plays himself." Of the westerns, current giants of the ratings, only top-rated Gunsmoke copped an Emmy ("the best dramatic series with continuing characters"). Other winners, as often attesting popularity...
Shower of Stars: After getting his second Emmy of the evening at the award ceremonies last week (see above), Jack Benny asked a prophetically rhetorical question: "Wouldn't it be funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium...
Died. Estelle Taylor, 58, oldtime sultry cinemactress (Don Juan), onetime (1925-31) wife of Heavyweight Jack Dempsey; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...squad's regular number two man, Larry Sears, will play first singles. According to coach Jack Barnaby, "Sears is playing so well that he is a good number one man." Tim Gallwey will play second singles, and Ned Weld, who defeated Al Goldman yesterday, will play number three...