Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn...
Even after age thickened his hips and time tired his quick hands, the New York Giants never seemed to know what to do about Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Their pitchers threw baseballs at his greying head and their bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league...
Rounding out the lineup for the Crimson varsity will be Dave Skeels at 123, Mike Abramovitz, another sophomore who got a pin, at 130, Bob Crook, at 137, replacing Paul Striker, who had to leave for home early, Jack Eastling at 157, and Ted Raymond at heavyweight...
Liquor is a steady seller. "Everything goes at Christmastime," said a Varsity Liquor Shop clerk, pointing to the newly filled shelves. A Harvard Provisions salesman called Jack Daniels Sour Mash popular. "And we can't get enough of it," he added...
Increased clothing sales, however, have not had a good effect on all of the Square's merchants. Mr. Jack, at the College Point Tailors, which rents formal wear, finds that his business is falling. "Most of the boys have their own tuxedos this year, many more than ever before," he explained...