Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drab campaign, Massachusetts former Democratic Congressman Foster Furcolo, 45, dramatically withstood the Eisenhower landslide, buried a Christian Herter-Eisenhower Republican, Lieutenant Governor Sumner G. Whittier, under a thumping plurality. Furcolo's chief campaign asset: energetic support from popular U.S. Senator Jack Kennedy...
...Merle Silas Jones, 51, was appointed president of CBS-Television, succeeding Jack L. Van Volkenburg, 53, who will retire Dec. 31. Born in Omaha, Jones graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1029, three years later gave up his law practice to join the sales staff of WAAW in Omaha. After serving as general manager of four radio stations, three of them CBS affiliates (longest hitch: St. Louis' KMOX, 1937-44), Jones became vice president of CBS' television network programs...
...point, the New York Times answered with a resounding no that rocked Manhattan executive suites. The networks' failure to carry the crucial session of the U.N. Security Council (at which the U.S. split with France and Britain) was roundly denounced by the Times's TV Critic Jack Gould as "stupid, selfish and irresponsible-an absolute mockery of the industry's obligation to serve the public interest." Where were the Big Three chains on this historic occasion? Displaying Veteran Cashier Bert Parks and his moneybags, putting Wyatt Earp through his heroic paces and inviting the nation to Name...
...angry chatter of an electric jack hammer replaced the usual quiet hum of conversation last night in Winthrop House as a central drainage pipe went on the rampage...
...Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Ronald Colman...