Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver's Allendale Heights suburban development this week, Homebuilder Jack C. Hoerner (rhymes with corner), World War II test pilot, put finishing touches on the demonstrator model of 40 three-bedroom houses with a unique sales gimmick: a 12-ft. by 14-ft. fallout shelter built into the basement and into the regular $17,500 price tag. The first for-sale version of the house, one of two now abuilding, sold to an about-to-retire Army major who once studied radiation effects, broke off negotiations on another house when he heard of Hoerner's shelter, said: "That...
...Jack Regas, last year's winning driver, was not even there: he was still in the hospital with severe head injuries suffered last month when he spun into a wall of water on Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Lake while driving Miss Bardahl. Taking Regas' seat in defending champion Hawaii Kai was Brien Wygle, 32, a Boeing test pilot, who was the first man to log 1,000 hours...
...answers on NBC's late-night leap into popular psychiatry this week was Joyce Brothers, 31, the blonde psychologist (Ph.D. Columbia, 1953) and book-taught boxing expert who three years ago took the $64,000 Question and the $64,000 Challenge for $134,000. Possibly assuming that Jack Paar sets up an audience of insomniac worriers, NBC has tacked Consult Dr. Brothers onto the end of the broadcast day (11:15 a.m.. weekdays). Dr. Joyce, who warmed up with a daytime show for a year, is the network's new way of bidding the country good night...
...public is intrigued and bewildered, the official Moscow press is neither. Critical consensus: "Who needs it?" Apparently the Russians are even less accustomed than Americans are to seeing pictures on their own merits. But what the spectators chiefly wanted was explanation. Jack Levine's brilliantly painted Welcome Home, depicting a banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust...
...polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden River . . . My friend, however, was a cold-blooded proposition; as soon as he got his fists on my food, he'd quit . . . Today the tables are turned. The yarn spinners...