Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late one night last week the searchlights illuminating the spacious cricket ground of sleepy Kuala Lumpur (pop. 300,000) suddenly went out. Two minutes later, precisely at midnight, the lights flashed on again, and as a crowd of 50,000 voices shouted Merdeka (freedom), the Union Jack slowly fluttered down to be replaced by a red, white and blue flag very like that of the U.S., save that instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation...
...away at 17 to join the Marines and learned his engineering the hard way as a private contractor and U.S. Army engineer. Retiring after World War II. in which he bossed 170.000 military and civilian construction people in Alaska, De Long got wind of a new kind of jack, more powerful than any before, snapped up the patent rights and brainstormed the idea of a mobile drilling platform for oilmen. Until then, the only offshore drilling was from permanent rigs that cost $1,500.000 to build, another $750,000 to dismantle. Gambling his own funds, and credit, De Long built...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean - all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum. Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...Extraordinary talent and initiative," said the citation two years ago, and all Fort Worth beamed with pride. As the city's "Outstanding Young Man of 1955," Jack Donald Hubbard, then 35, was the kind of bigger-than-life operator that Texans instantly recognize and dearly love. Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce, a church elder, a United Fund official, district chairman of the Boy Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury...
Long before Pete finished counting his bruises, Deacon Jack Hurley, the irascible Seattle promoter who perpetrated the farce, sorrowfully counted the house. He had hoped for a $400,000 gate; there was only $243,000 in the till. With the skill of a veteran pitchman preparing to milk the marks once more, Hurley started the spiel for a new fight. "This guy may not have the staying power of a pro yet. But he's as confident as Einstein doing long division. He can draw a crowd better than anybody but the champion...