Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in between fall the other nations' contributions. London Broil is the title given a fine series of moods (S'Wonderfid, April in Paris), in a style only as old as yesterday, by Johnny Dankworth's and Jack Parnell's big bands. There is also some happy, unspoiled Dixieland by Freddy Randall's gang (Carolina in the Morning). The Angel series bows to Paris in an album called Le Jazz Hot, with the late Guitarist Django Reinhardt. It then picks up a newer style in Jonah Wails. Jonah...
Noah Brusso), 73, onetime (1906-08) heavyweight boxing champion of the world; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. The only Canadian and the shortest boxer (5 ft. 7 in., 179 Ibs.) ever to wear the heavyweight crown, Ontario-born Tommy was soundly beaten by Jack Johnson, fought only sporadically thereafter, became an ordained minister, once advised newlyweds: "The first few rounds are easy in prize fighting and in matrimony. It's staying power that counts...
When New York Mirror Editor Jack Lait and his Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer brought out their untidy, slapdash book, U.S.A. Confidential, they quickly became targets of half a dozen libel suits (TIME, May 19, 1952), based on the character assassination that helped make the book a bestseller. Biggest and most important was brought by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus store, which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided...
With a design speed of between 150 and 200 m.p.h., the McDonnell XVi is built to carry four passengers (or two casualties and a medic) plus the pilot. As an Army or Air Force jack-of-all-work, it may be used, after further development, to supplement slower, shorter-ranged conventional small helicopters for liaison, rescue and reconnaissance missions. Its enthusiasts see the XV1 as a major advance toward easier civilian air transportation in the future; by 1965 travelers may be able to board convertiplanes at skyscraper platforms within blocks of their homes or offices, speed off for a visit...
...good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. About that time, Biddle took over a Bible class, started a movement called Athletic Christianity that soon won some 200,000 followers around the world. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, Biddle would tell his young disciples: "I want you boys to go in there and fight...