Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Kelly has made several names for himself-in business, sports and politics. As a young boy, he went to work carrying hods for his brother, a brick contractor. In his spare time he practiced rowing on the Schuylkill, became proficient enough to try for the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta in 1920. He was turned down, though; as a former bricklayer, he was not considered a gentleman. Kelly beat the Diamond Sculls winner just the same, at the Olympics two months later, and sent his stained sculling cap to King George...
...Jack Kelly built up a prosperous brick contracting business and began to dabble in politics. When Philadelphia's Democratic Party was reviving in 1935, Kelly ran for mayor, lost by 47,000 votes. He has never run for office again, but has kept a sturdy hand in politics. He has also kept up a running interest in horse racing (he is president of the Atlantic City Racing Association) and body-building (he inspired President Eisenhower's Lunch of Champions last July...
...mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...other Times employees invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering at least some questions: ¶ Jack Shafer, 44, foreign-desk copyreader for nearly seven years, who testified that the Times fired him before the hearings started, when he indicated that he would duck behind the Fifth. ¶ Nathan Aleskovsky, 43, assistant to the editor of the Sunday Book Review section, where he worked for five years. He denied that he is now a Communist, but would not say if he had belonged to the party. He said that the Times had demanded and got his resignation...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...