Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More practical than Douglas' speech was a piece of blunt advice relayed to Ike from Capitol Hill Democratic leaders: the President ought to set aside two 15-minute periods a week for talking to individual Republicans, face to face or by telephone, to jack up congressional support in his own party for reciprocal trade...
...smoke-filled cellar cafés and cold-water flats of San Francisco's waterfront and Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the word these days is "beat." Patriarch and prophet of what he calls "the beat generation" is a 35-year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious...
...About East Cupcake?" The weather clouded, and travelers brought tales that Jack Paar's Tonight show, on location at a Miami Beach hotel, was laying eggs in a heavy downpour. Little crises piled up. Slight (130 Ibs.) Actor Don Knotts, who plays the nervous type in Allen's "Man in the Street" feature, passed out in the coffee shop; flown down from the U.S., his doctor diagnosed "nervous exhaustion." Bearded Orchestra Leader Skitch Henderson created consternation at Havana's CMQ when he turned up in sweater and denims resembling a Cuban revolutionary's getup...
Born. To Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, 52, gravel-voiced Negro comedian, Jack Benny's radio and television chauffeur, valet and drawling stooge since 1937, interpreter of Noah in both the 1936 movie and last fall's TV versions of The Green Pastures, and Eva Anderson, 25: their first son, second child; in Hollywood. Name: Edmund Lincoln. Weight...
...drapes the plot round a rich, handsome Dartmouth graduate who wants to box his way to glory and falls in love with a girl who disapproves. Their squabbles over the ring, and his adventures in it, are about the dullest part of the show. It bounces to life in Jack Warden's amusing, likable performance as a fight manager, most notably when he goes fully clothed, on business, to a steam room. The show turns sprightly once again when a bunch of neighborhood tykes warble Uh-Huh, Oh Yeah. It tingles pleasantly when Barbara McNair and Lonnie Sattin sing...