Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be led by a 6-5 sophomore guard, George Giersch, the team's leading scorer. Barry McGrath, at 6-5, plays center, while the third sophomore, Bob Latkanay, will open at guard. Paul McAdams, and Jack Harington, 6-2, and 6-3, will play the forward positions...
...varsity, Jack Barnaby will use his usual lineup of Heckscher, Place, Sears, Charlie Hamm, Charlie MacVeagh, Henry Cortesi, Pete Lund, Ed Wadsworth, and Hank Holmes...
Across the Board. Van Doren, whom many a grateful parent regards as TV's own health-restoring antidote to Presley, is no narrow specialist like the culinary Marine captain or the opera-buff shoemaker of The $64,000 Question, but an agile Jack-of-all-subjects. He is an engaging, curly-haired, lanky (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 lbs.) image of the all-American boy-"so likable," gushed the Chicago American's TV Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this...
Uniquely among TV quiz shows, Twenty One is shrewdly designed to test the same odd combination of many-sided learning and the gambler's art. Packaged and owned by M.C. Jack Barry and Dan Enright, the show may pop questions in any of 108 categories of information that range across the board of knowledge. Moreover, though the contestant stakes none of his own money at the outset, he risks his winnings every time he chooses to play...
...Pooling resources with a buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours a day, won $3,000 in a year. Says Whipkey: "He figures the percentage to the last decimal. On the TV show, he follows the old Black Jack rule, 'Always hit 16, always stick on 18.' Once on TV when Charlie reached 17, I told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating...