Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven Lbs. -do you think I'll need all this?" Replied the son, Jack Graham: "Yes, Mother, I'm 'sure you will need it." Mrs. King was going to Alaska to visit her married daughter, and she would need a lot of warm clothes...
Alden Carpenter, Bob Holmes, and Erich Segal crossed the finish line 27th, 29th, and 34th respectively out of about 50 runners. Nick Costes and Jack Kelley, both formerly from Boston University, tied for first place, but the Boston Athletic Association won the race...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...feet of their new President. Author Keith suffers from the conviction that every least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George is of overwhelming interest, and she records their conversation in some of the least plausible dialogue to appear outside Smilin' Jack. Her saving grace is an ability to see men of many colors not as quaint objects but as individual human beings, and a warm faith in Asian friends which is refreshingly free of condescension...
Yesterday morning, when the ice was still there despite the sun, Yale guard Jack Embersits said quietly, "after we lost to Princeton, we had to win this one." The cheers in the Stadium which greeted the announcement of the 13-0 Yale-Princeton score last week had long since died away...