Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...
...getting ready for the cameras. When there are not enough books to his liking on the market, Wald invents some. For years he saved clippings on the subject of young college-grad career girls in the big city, finally talked to Simon and Schuster's late editor. Jack Goodman, who passed the tip on to a promising young writer (and Radcliffe graduate) named Rona Jaffe. Result: The Best of Everything, Author Jaffe's bestseller (TIME, Sept. 15), which Wald duly bought...
...DHARMA BUMS (244 pp.)-Jack Kerouac-Viking...
...Jack (On the Road) Kerouac might have called his latest novel On the Trail, or How the Campfire Boys Discovered Buddhism. The book is less frantic than On the Road, less sexy than The Subterraneans, but it reconfirms Kerouac's literary role as a kind of Tom Thumb Wolfe in hip clothing. Like other Kerouac novels, the book has the sound of jazzed-up autobiography, and the most fictional thing about it may well be the brand of Buddhism (ostensibly Zen) that the beat hero and his pals preach and practice...
Selected are Dr. Jack G. Dale, Dr. Paul Gron, Dr. John Nalhandin, Dr. Sigmund Socransky, and Dr. J. Henry Stempien...