Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reno's release from tension was first suggested by former Giant Mel Ott, now a Detroit sportscaster, who noticed that tenseness was hurting Bertoia's swing at the plate. Tiger Trainer Jack Homel took the message to Reno, and the young man (22) promptly tried Equanil, later switched to Sedamyl. Reno, it turned out, was not the first Detroit athlete to try tranquilizers. Says Osteopath Richard Thompson, team physician for the Detroit Lions football team: "We used them on at least five Lions last year, and we intend to continue to use them." The Tigers' Dr. Luther...
...field events, Jack Cooksey of Winthrop won the discus with a toss of 107 feet, 7 inches. Frank Weller of Adams won the broad jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 1/2 inches while Greg Stone took first place in the shotput at 51-3. Bob Travis won the only first place for Kirkland by taking the javelin with a throw of 157 feet, 10 inches. Frank Weller also won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 3/4 inches a new record in house competition...
Mounting Distrust. The break has been swift and thorough. Only a year ago last January the Knight papers ran a glowing verdict by Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program...
...News the Page One headline trumpeted Ike's defense of the budget, while the "second front page"-Knight's gambit to inveigle readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
...often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...