Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy got one more reason this week to wish that 1960 were closer around the corner. On top of his 870,000-vote re-election plurality, Kennedy last week had the word of the Gallup poll that he would walk away from Vice President Richard Nixon if the two ran for the presidency right now-and by a much fatter majority than in any of three earlier trial heats run by Gallup. Results (discounting the undecided...
...years since his death, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock has become the nation's most admired art export. Last week Pollock's passionate, familiar dribblings of paint were on view in a London gallery. Judging by the record attendance as well as the reviews, Jack the Dripper had taken England in hand...
...tart-tongued Columnist Jack Scott, 43, of the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, no target was ever more tempting than the Sun itself. He railed against the paper's promotion contests ("cynical seduction of a gullible public"), declared western Canada's biggest (circ. 211,012) and fattest daily was slow of foot and dull of eye. Critic Scott's proposal to brighten the Sun: "More deep reporting and vivid writing, the sort of thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut...
From the moment Jack Kramer arrived, Australians viewed him with mixed feelings. As coach of the U.S. Davis Cup squad, he was theoretically welcome. But as a promoter who has lured away top Australian stars for his professional tours, he was viewed with ill-concealed hostility...
...tried his hand at radio repair work and plastics fabrication, decided to make a "detailed and authentic" plastic toy washing machine. It sold well, but his first big hit did not come until 1950, when Glaser put out a copy of the old Maxwell auto, made famous by Comedian Jack Benny, sold 800,000. Glaser added the battleship Missouri (still the most successful, with 2,040,000 kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp. Other bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits...