Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appearance, was both unkind and inaccurate. I knew every man who stepped on the stage, and I was genuinely glad to see him. Sure Ralph got some unexpected answers to some of his questions. But I thought 'that was what made This Is Your Life a great show. JACK DEMPSEY Hollywood...
...beginning to box in the Russians. Since 1950 the U.S. has declared 13 Soviet diplomatic employees persona non grata. The practice has spread to Holland, Denmark and Sweden, which have recently demanded the withdrawal of suspected Soviet embassy spies. Last month the FBI, arresting Jacob Albam and Myra and Jack Soble on charges of being Soviet agents (TIME, Feb. 4), hinted that it had evidence of a vast spy network "involving Soviet officials...
...Lucy, December Bride, Phil Silvers, are filmed before a live audience whose real laughter is recorded with the show itself. Then the film's sound track is judiciously "sweetened": coughs are erased, idiot giggles toned down, chuckles reinforced and silences sprinkled with gaiety. Another common technique, used by Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, the Bob Cummings Show and Private Secretary, is to film the show without spectators, then show the film to a movie-house audience monitored by microphones. The sounds of the audience reaction are dubbed in-and again doctored on the theory that he who laughs most laughs...
Twenty-One (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Jack Barry emcees the record-breaking giveaway...
...idea of putting unions into the insurance business came in 1951 from backslapping Ben Jack Cage, now 39, who won enthusiastic support from the Texas Federation of Labor. Cage gave union leaders a majority on the board of his Insurance Co. of Texas (later changed to ICT Insurance Co. after the scores of failures made people wary of "Texas" in an insurance title). Cage gave out cheery reports that the company was bringing in $10 million to $15 million yearly in "premium writings" from 25 states. Actually, ICT always lost money. Taking bad fire and casualty risks, it paid...