Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Russell, 250-pound president of the Cleveland City Council and one of America's last--and most competent--political ward bosses, came to Harvard this week to teach "the kids" a few lessons in practical politics and, incidentally, to have his picture taken in a mortarboard, standing next to the Harvard drum. But the drum had already gone to New Haven...
While waiting, Russell disinterestedly outlined his career. He grew up in East Cleveland's Hungarian Buckeye Road district, left school at sixteen, and played saxophone in his own jazz band. ("I called myself Jack Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...
...Jack D. Russell, called by some the last of the old-time politicians, last night stirred up a hornets' nest of criticism by studiously avoiding questions put to him by his Gov 141 audience...
...Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy it. ¶ Warner's Sayonara, an adaptation of James Michener's novel about two American veterans of the Korean war who marry Japanese girls. The Americans: Marlon Brando...
...march was negotiated in 12 downs and covered 60 yards. Finney concentrated his attack on the left side of the Harvard line, which was a favorite Brown target all afternoon. Key plays were a 21-yard option and a 14-yard pass from Finney to right end Jon Jensen. Jack McTigue scored the touch- down on a dive over his own right guard from three yards...