Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," said the announcer, his tone lush and breathless, "Esther just doesn't know what to do! She feels that she owes her husband Jack nothing; he hurt her in every way one person can. But now he's in need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...
...million housewives tuned in to Ma Perkins this week, there was little doubt that bighearted Ma would help caddish Jack. For listeners know Ma better than they know Nora Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than...
...endure the twice-daily war of commuting. Inside the club, the polite plunk of tennis balls, the whisper of sneakers on trim grass courts, the tinkle of ice in frost-beaded glasses still recall the long-gone white-flannel age of the courts. There, next week, a lanky jumping jack of a girl who grew up in the slums of Harlem will play tennis. She may not belong to any of the clubs that run the tournament, but this year the tournament belongs to her. Behind Althea Gibson, women's tennis curves off into mediocrity: without...
...relies on "auxiliary shots" (e.g., the chop and slice). But her tennis has a champion's unmistakable power and drive. Says Tony Trabert: "She hits the ball hard and plays like a man. She runs and covers the court better than any of the other women." Says Promoter Jack Kramer, who eventually would like to get Althea into the pro ranks: "She has the best chance to be a champ in the manner of Alice Marble that I've seen...
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...