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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Jack Peurifoy was given the grace to believe that it was a just and good God who in His inscrutable wisdom had given his son this "hardest problem" is gratifying. Other countless parents, from the time of Adam and Eve to our present day, have been troubled about the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Hope flared last week among viewers who may have longed to see a subject of This Is Your Life poke M.C. Ralph Edwards in the nose that he sticks weekly into a private past. The week's subject: Jack Dempsey. The ex-heavyweight champion, now 61, was the prize catch so far among celebrities whom Edwards has tricked unsuspecting into TV camera range for exposure to a parade of memory-rattling acquaintances, some of whom they have forgotten (or would just as soon forget). But the Manassa Mauler was caught with his guard down in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: They Never Come Back | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Defelice and rookie defenseman Jack Bionda then were traded to Eddie Shore's Springfield club in exchange for goalie Don Simmons. Another Bruin player will be sent to Springfield this spring to round out the recent trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruins Use Simmons as Goalie At Afternoon Practice in Watson | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

...hopelessly naive young American who blunders through the labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what the shooting is all about. Instead of an adventurous idealist, Hero Jack Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories, the clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of Innocence | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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