Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...
...trip will give varsity coach Jack Barnaby an opportunity to watch his players in action against some stiff competition, and give the players a chance to sharpen up their games for the season's opener April 17 against M.I.T...
...investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability pension after a heart attack), seemed to have the investigating credentials for landing the committee job. Said Cheasty tersely: "I'd rather hear this from...
Best Actor (Single Performance): Jack...
...fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop, and is building a $50 million plant in Connecticut to develop a nuclear engine. Net result for United Aircraft, whose Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner and President William P. Gwinn also have a booming business in Hamilton-Standard propellers and Sikorsky helicopters: a $2.3 billion backlog at the end of 1956, which was some $900 million more than...