Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Primary Need." But the President's air of finality just fanned the sparks. Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the White House. The bishop: "The President has chosen to refuse . . . to allow this nation of abundance to meet a primary need of countries who want aid towards population control to help avert increasing starvation and misery." In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. R. Norris Wilson, overseas relief director of the National Council...
...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
...strange as anything about the 28 minute film is the fact that its producers -Swiss-born Photographer Robert Frank, 35, and Painter Alfred Leslie, 32-financed it ($20,000) largely through Wall Street's Jack Dreyfus (the Dreyfus Fund) and Stock Market Letter Writer Walter Gutman (Shields & Co.). After its recent premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival, Judge Barnaby (Matador) Conrad declared: "I liked it until Kerouac got the 'smart jacks'-what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that...
Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
Paar kept saying: "I don't know what to do," and Rooney claimed: "I'm not trying to be inobtrusive." Then Rooney began to discuss the previous night's Jack Paar Show, said, "I stayed up until I couldn't sleep any more. May I say this, I'm not a fan. I don't care to watch your show ... It sounds pretty, pretty rotten. I didn't enjoy your show. Jack. And I don't enjoy it too much, except I can't-I can't stay away from...