Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson's evaluation of people is paramount to his Senate leadership. The Senate presently has 49 Democrats (ranging from Harry Byrd conservatives to Hubert Humphrey liberals) and 47 Republicans (ranging from Bill Jenner reactionaries to Jack Javits liberals). A straight party-line vote is almost unheard-of, and it is up to Lyndon Johnson, in pursuit of his Democratic line, to piece together a winning combination from the Senate's vastly disparate elements. He does it by knowing each Senator as well as that Senator knows himself. "Sam Rayburn once told me that an effective leader must sense...
...Kiss Goodbye. The bright yellow bus, with 46 pupils aboard, was bound for the elementary and high schools in nearby Prestonsburg. There was nothing unusual about the morning beyond cloudy skies, or about the bus and its journey. At about 7 o'clock Driver Jack Derossett, 27, started his usual route through the 75-family coal-mining town of Cow Creek, picked up his regular riders on schedule. Seconds before he was due, for example, James Goble, 12, John, 11, and Anna Laura, 9, the three children of Cow Creek Storekeeper James B. Goble, scooped up their books, kissed...
This season the portly (229 lbs.), shaggy droll with the twinkling squint has hurdled the gulf from Omnibus to The $64,000 Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
...which knows him in the beard that he grew for his current stage role, Visitor Ustinov is most familiar as wit and mimic in his appearances on the Jack Paar Show, but he complains: "All those interruptions [for commercials] while you sit there trying to be Voltaire-Voltaire wouldn't stand for it." He is particularly fascinated by U.S. giveaways, "where they meter the suffering that people have had, and the one with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance...
...Souls, a 1913 five-reeler about white slavery, was New York-born Harry Cohn's first picture. Returning 79 times its $5,700 cost, it taught him that 1) big money could be made from a small investment and 2) "the public wants sex." In 1920, with brother Jack and Joe Brandt, he founded the C.B.C. Company, forerunner of Columbia, on an initial outlay of $250. After the Cohns had bought out Brandt's interest in 1929, Harry took over as president...