Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan TV critics (the World-Telegram's Harriet Van Horne and the Journal-American's Jack O'Brian) headlined their views identically: THE BIG PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
...pleasures and treasures, has bequeathed his villa with its library and collection to Harvard as a center for Italian art studies. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Boston, he got his education (Boston University and Harvard) on scholarships, was sponsored by Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed to the wrong artists, weathered the storm of protest...
...bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts of "to eat" as "eat, ate, full," and only Mr. Kaplan could conceive of the generalissimo of Nationalist China as "Shanghai Jack." The world of science straggles beside Mr. Kaplan's inventive agility; he defines "diameter" as a machine that counts dimes...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy...