Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such fund-raising methods came naturally to Jack Porter: back in 1954, accused of "selling" postmasterships for campaign contributions, Porter explained, "There's no law against soliciting funds from any source, as far as I know." But when it got the news of Porter's letter-as printed in the Washington Post and Times-Herald-the Administration exploded. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn blew hot into the White House switchboard, and the word was relayed to President Eisenhower, who reddened and snapped: "Let's check the facts on this...
...accept the $100,000 collected at the dinner. Later, when newsmen asked White House Press Secretary James Hagerty for the President's reaction to Porter's blunder, he made a slashing gesture with the edge of his right hand against the arm of his red leather chair; Jack Porter's head figuratively rolled onto the floor. With it went the gas bill's chances, and no one knew it better than the oil and gas men. Said one: "I advised two years ago that Porter should be shot without ceremony. Too bad it didn...
...news. For weeks the country had been watching the Lancashire textile center of Rochdale, where a crucial by-election campaign was being waged to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Tory M.P. Lieut. Colonel Wentworth Schofield. Contesting the seat again for Labor was 47-year-old Jack McCann, a local diesel-engine fitter, who was handily defeated by Schofield in the last general election. A sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold Rochdale for the Tories. The unexpected element in the race: Britain's long-dormant Liberals...
Tonight (José Melis, his piano and strings; Seeco). A collection of standards -Love Is a Simple Thing, Harbor Lights, One Morning in May-played by a 40-year-old Cuban supper-club pianist (and member of the Jack Paar TV show). Melis has a nice, unpretentious fancy and an attack as clean as a sea breeze. Particularly pleasant when he cuts loose from all those viscous strings...
From Caracas, the Houston Post's Reporter Jack Donahue last week sent his paper a penetrating series on a topic close to Texans: the precarious future of U.S. oil companies in post-revolutionary Venezuela. Hitting an even more sensitive nerve, the Post ran a Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West...