Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most striking verification of this fact came last weekend when John Davis, number six player on coach Jack Barnaby's varsity, won the consolation singles tournament at the National Intercollegiate Championships and in doing so defeated a good number of top men from other college squads. Another demonstration of balance was given during the Yale match when the Crimson managed to hold Yale's top five--which had won the National Team Title only one week before--to a 3-2 split while winning the bottom four singles to take the match...
...audience. Yet, Johnson believes, the professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
With material that Coach Jack Barnaby calls "really solid and strong," the varsity tennis team opened indoor practice this week in preparation for its trip South during spring recess...
Nothing of the sort can be said for anyone else in the cast, though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium...
...wasn't. In the longer run, Jack Scott's reforms turned out to be largely froth. Last week, when Scott got back from three weeks of vacation in California, he found a memo from Cromie waiting on his desk. His top-drawer job was gone. Taking Scott's place as editorial boss of the Sun, with the title of managing editor, is a man who has had his eye on the job all along: harddriving, stolid, German-born Erwin Swangard, 50, who was demoted from assistant managing editor to night city editor by Scott, is cordially disliked...