Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later Queen Frederika told Jack Peurifoy the story. The Ambassador shook his head and said: "I can't tell him that I believe that. I cannot believe that a good and just God would do that to my little boy." And the Ambassador burst into tears. But eventually, as the Queen had advised, he did tell the boy that he believed it was Jesus who had given him this "hardest problem...
...when Jack Peurifoy was U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, he and his two sons were in an automobile accident. Jack Peurifoy and his younger son, a normal, healthy lad then 9 years old, were killed. But Clinton, 14, the spastic, survived-"by one of those forever puzzling strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
...performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right after the matches to turn pro. For a $65,000 guarantee and 25% of the gate receipts over $300,000, plus a 5% bonus if he beats Pro Champ Pancho Gonzales, Rosewall will go on a 13-month tour with Jack Kramer's traveling tennists. But the sad truth is that even with Rosewall gone, Australia has a thick layer of talented young players to throw against a thin line of undertrained and only mildly promising U.S. youngsters...
...brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...
Second Team: Goal, Jim Bailey, Harvard, and Al Pitts (tie), Boston University; defense, Bob Owen, Harvard, and Mike McDonough, Providence; forwards, Jim Tiernan, B.C., Jack Carruthers, B.U., and Dick Fischer, Harvard...