Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack-of-All-Trades. Bulganin's administrative talents soon caught Stalin's eye. He was-,and still is-an energetic jack-of-all-problems, in business, bureaucracy or statecraft. Knowing little about banking, he became head of the Gosbank, Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Neither chemist nor metallurgist, (serving alongside Molotov) he whipped Russian production of explosives and gun metals to record heights...
...Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Gambler, starring Jack Carson...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
...while thereafter, Evergood seemed to have been beached on the mudbank of the Depression. His bitterness began to have a period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily, extending the range of his art. An Evergood show today is apt to run the gamut from gloomy realism through cartoon-style satire to exuberant fantasy, and to include some of the freshest and most skillful canvases of the season...