Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman...
Skillful, steady and utterly fearless, Vuky wasted no time. He gunned his Hopkins Special into a fierce duel with Jack MrGrath's Hinkle Special, and the two men began to run away with the race. Behind them, mechanical trouble thinned the field. Then McGrath's mount sputtered to a halt with ignition failure. Bill Vukovich was alone in the lead...
...crutches only a few days earlier, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 38. reappeared on the Capitol steps in Washington. At last relieved of the effects of an old World War II naval battle injury by a spinal operation last October, Jack Kennedy looked tan and hardy after five months of Florida sun shine and home care from his pretty wife Jacqueline. Nor was his convalescence wasted time : he had written a book about memorable moments in the Senate's his tory, had kept up with its current meanderings by daily browsings through the windy Congressional Record. Chuckled...
...steeple jack, painting the spire of Memorial Church, is a rare sight in the Yard, not because the University allows its buildings to become run down, but because he is not a regular employee of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. With a year-round crew of 350 workers and a budget of over a million dollars to finance maintenance operations, the Department seldom has to contract outside help for any type of repair work on University property...
Springfield College collected nine hits and four runs off Boston College's fastballer Ed Buckley last night to edge the Eagles, 4 to 3, in the District One NCAA baseball playoffs. Springfield pitcher Jack Sand gained his seventh win in eight starts. Holy Cross and the Univ. of Mass. are the other teams in the playoffs...