Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...
...around to dramatizing it. Kraft called the play The Battle for Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night...
...varsity also will face an inexperienced University of Connecticut nine Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in Hemenway, a match that Coach Jack Barnaby deems "not too much to worry about." Barnaby said that the Crimson's depth will permit him to rest a player "if there is any question about his health." TheUConns are also new to squash, but Barnaby plans to start his top nine...
...conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow commandoes, Sessue Hayakawa is the blustering Japanese commandant, and all of them are unexceptionable...
...three judges will be: Perry Rathbone, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; James M. Fowle, assistant professor of Fine Arts; and Jack N. Kramer, assistant professor of Fine Arts at Boston University...