Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana Purchase territory. Over conservative Creole (Sorbonne-trained) opposition, Dr. Hunt and his successors built a good regional school in a city which in three years (1833-35) had had 19,000 deaths in a population of 50,000-caused largely by typhoid, cholera and yellow jack...
...said to make will be a lie, or the result of human weakness." With these last words to his spiritual principality, the cardinal (Alec Guinness) submits to arrest by the secret police. He is charged with treason and remanded for interrogation to a brilliant political fanatic, a doctor (Jack Hawkins) with whom he had worked in the anti-Nazi resistance during World...
...Valley Project, which was conceived largely as a flood-control, irrigation and salinity-control development in Northern California. But the powerful Pacific Gas & Electricity Co. correctly foresaw that the project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith Baxter, 26, a recent widow who was also something of an expert in publicity as well as a prime mover in the C.V.P...
...Isclin '56 of Greenville, S.C. and Eliot House; Business Manager, Charles M. Diker '56 of New York and Everett Street, Cambridge; Editorial Chairman, William W. Bartley, III '56 of Pittsburgh and Eliot House; Photographic Chairman, Stephen S. Shohet '56 of Willard Road, Brookline and Leverett House; Associate Managing Editor, Jack Rosenthal '56 of Portland, Ore, and Dunster House; Sports Editor, Steven C. Swett '56 of Baltimore and Winthrop House; and Advertising Manager, Burton A. Schwalb '56 of Child Street, Hyde Park, and Leverett House...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance Ida Lupino (TIME...