Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge on the River Kwai. The best picture of 1957: an enthralling story of men in war; with Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins (TIME...
...local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...network schedule pose a problem for CBS, which this season has lost some of its audience edge over an aggressive NBC and a fast-growing ABC. Another blow to CBS has been the slippage of The $64,000 Question, which, despite such frantic publicity stunts as an appearance by Jack Benny, dropped out of the Nielsen top ten for the first time in 2½ years. Strike It Rich is dropping right out of the CBS schedule next week. But given such variations as The Price Is Right or Twenty-One, the quiz show still seems good for many seasons...
Wrinkles & Old Age. In new faces, fresh ideas or creative talent, the season has little to show so far. The only major new star is a personable retread named Jack Paar (TIME, Oct. 28), the gentlemanly comic who rescued NBC's Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor...
...Jack Up the Protection." What peeved the Canadians as much as the request itself was the reason given for it. As before, Washington justified the cut on "security" grounds, i.e., the argument that in time of war, when tanker imports might be cut off by submarines, the U.S. will be thrown back on its own oil production, thus must keep the independent producers healthy. But Canadians sensibly pointed out that their oil is shipped in pipelines and would not be cut off. Warned former Canadian External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson: "Any further restrictions on Canadian imports into...