Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double, to win back doubting Democrats, came skirmishers from the A.F.L-C.I.O., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Society of Friends, B'nai B'rith and the N.A.A.C.P. Doubting Republicans received telephone calls from aides of Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Presidential Administrative Assistant I. (for Isaac) Jack Martin hurried over from the White House, stationed himself on the Republican side of the House lobby to buttonhole members...
...Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also mercifully scrapping the Tonight format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy, sentimental Jack Paar picking up the pieces left by this season's witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer...
...machines had scraped off 7,000,000 tons of earth to expose this mineral prize: the world's largest known deposit of borax. To the housewife, borax is merely a household cleanser, 'but to industry it is the chief source of boron, a new wonder element and Jack-of-all-trades that can be used in everything from drugs and plastics to the super-powered rocket fuels of the future...
...Lonely Man (Paramount) attempts to show that the Stanislavsky Method of acting is right at home on the range. The hero (Jack Palance), like so many disciples of The Method, is 1,000% sincere; he would not dream of speaking a line until he had lived it right down to the last rivet in his denims. The results are sometimes disconcerting...
...brought to the U.S. With no rich American contingent in sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack. At ?3,200 ($8,960), the auctioneer held the gavel in the air for almost half a minute, then knocked Lot 40 down to Davis. Said the sad-faced Jack, who was bidding to return the panels to Sulgrave Manor (a privately operated museum): "A tragedy. We had no chance...