Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are other ways of looking at the ancient mystery of guiltless suffering, as was shown last week by the remarkable story of one child. The story was told by the U.S. Sixth Fleet's Admiral Charles Brown, and it concerned the son of his old friend Jack Peurifoy, onetime (1950-53) U.S. Ambassador to Greece. The child's name was Clinton Peurifoy, and he was a spastic...
Born. To Carroll Baker, 22, star of Baby Doll (TIME, Dec. 24), and Jack Garfein, 26, theatrical director: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Blanche. Weight...
...JACK LONDON'S TALES OF ADVENTURE (53 I pp.)-Edifed by Irving Shepard-Hanover House...
...Jack London, who is the most popular and widely translated U.S. author in Russia and Iron Curtain countries (according to UNESCO), first became famous just after the turn of the century with three stories-two about dogs and one about a man. They closely resembled each other. Buck was a Saint Bernard and the dog in all the world least likely ever to be drawn by James Thurber, who found life too tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told of a wolf that left Alaska to become civilized...
...born (1876) in rowdy, brawling San Francisco, the illegitimate son of an itinerant Irish astrologer. His mother, abandoned by the stargazer, shot herself (the injury proved slight), and then married John London, a decent man who couldn't stick to any trade and therefore was glamorized by young Jack as "a soldier, trapper, backwoodsman and wanderer." Anyone with such a background might be excused for thinking human nature too complicated to figure out, and London's works-18 novels, 20 collections of short stories, seven nonfiction books, three plays and a mass of journalism-were to deal with...