Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Sept. 7 article on beatnik wnting, you refer to "Jack Kerouac's soapless saga, The Subterraneans," as though in lacking soap it therefore lacked an essential ingredient. I have heard of soap operas, but I was not aware that a detergent was an essential part of a saga...
...heyday, the gold-mining town of Deadwood, S.D., nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from...
...nightmarish ordeal all around, but in the telling of tales that makes old Deadwood a paradise for tourists, it was bound to get much worse until, ultimately, it might even rival the tales of Deadwood Dick himself, and of Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Poker Alice, and that mean coward Jack McCall...
...billion-a-year aircraft-manufacturing industry, fifth biggest in the U.S., is troubled and worried. Despite enormous backlogs of orders, most companies feel insecure, not only about the future but also about the present. Warned United Aircraft's Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner: "All of our military business is in jeopardy." What has put it in jeopardy is the change that missiles have brought to the industry. They not only promise the end of manned military bombers and fighters, but have brought such other lightning changes that huge projects, calling for hundreds of millions of dollars, can be made...
...plays both equally well. Says the Voice of America's Jazz Disk Jockey Willis Conover, who beams Byrd's wide-ranging guitar to 80-odd countries: "Charlie Byrd's versatility in the literature of the guitar surpasses that of anyone else. He is a masterful jack of all guitar trades...