Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House early in the week came samples of messages from 21 prominent civil rights men, e.g., U.N. Official Ralph Bunche, retired Baseball Star Jack Robinson and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging the Administration to stand pat for a strong bill. From such leading Negro newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political...
Occupations: Professional Communist spies on the lam from the U.S., lately members of the U.S. network that included Jack and Myra Soble, Jacob Albam, George and Jane Zlatovski and U.S. Counterspy Boris Morros, specializing in recruiting likely U.S. prospects for Soviet espionage...
Massachusetts' shock-haired Senator Jack Kennedy, 40, ambled up to Cinemactress Sophia Loren at a party thrown in her honor at the Italian embassy in Washington, shook hands gingerly, then skittered bashfully out of camera range. Asked Sophia, as she was crowded by less diffident legislators: "If that shy young man didn't want his picture taken with me, then why did he come here...
...Will Travel, bring over England's top-seeded commercial show, Assignment Foreign Legion, with Merle Oberon, and cast Eve Arden in a series based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
...giants and mostly come to ends both brobdingnagian and foul. The first Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly her husband Joe Cree...