Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
...telling you that the man, in my opinion, who will not be nominated for President on the Democratic ticket is one who will divide the country on race, religion or foreign policy." That prediction could be taken as a poke at such leading Democratic possibilities as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who has strongly liberal foreign policy notions. But Truman's reverse description of The Man Who was also carefully tailored to promote the Democrat that Truman actually would like to see get the nomination: Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
...newspaper empire that John Shively Knight built, the boss's brother, Jim Knight, has played a secondary role. It was the elder (by 15 years) brother Jack who took full charge of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1933 on the death of their father, and led the expansion into four other cities. It was Jack Knight, too, who sold the prosperous Chicago Daily News three months ago to Marshall Field Jr. (TIME, Jan. 19). "All I wanted to do," Jack said then to those who speculated on the imminent dismemberment of the chain, "was relax a little, and give...
...recent edition of the Yale Daily News told of the "defending champion Elis" opening their Eastern Intercollegiate League season by blanking Army, 9 to 0. Well, last May 14, coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity defeated Yale, 6 to 3, to win the Eastern League title and will open their defense of that crown against the same Army club on the Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today...
...Crimson baseball team will try to pick up its first E.I.B.L. win this afternoon as it takes on the Brandeis nine at Waltham. Jack Kirby, a G.B.L. All Star last year will start on the mound for the Judges, while Crimson coach Norm Shepard goes with fast-baller Ed Wadsworth...