Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City wrote: "It isn't easy to choose . . . I've been toying with the idea of asking for $100 worth of Oldsmobiles, or some of I. W. Harper's liquid assets; there are so many products and services in TIME'S advertising pages." In Atlanta, Jack F. Glenn waited for his wife to come back to town...
Along Lake Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar...
...singer from Los Angeles, began a search for a genuine British lord to be master of ceremonies and do commercials on a series of half-hour TV films called Rendezvous with Vicki. Rendezvous is still merely an idea in the active brain of Vicki's friend and manager, Jack Elliott, ex-songwriter and Hollywood producer of TV commercials. Vicki is a 23-year-old platinum blonde whose generous measurements match Gina Lollobrigida's (36-22-35). By the time Vicki got to London three weeks ago, British nobility was forming a queue...
...ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), was a character study of a megalomaniac, painted in overripe colors. The gambler (Jack Carson), at the nadir of his career (he is broke), risks whatever is dear to him for a bet on a sure thing that turns out not to be so sure. Its soupy point: the biggest suckers are those who think they can ride home on the long shots...
Born. To Joan Naomi Benny, 20, adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, and Seth Baker, 27, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...