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January 30, 2007 -- JOHN F. Kennedy and his actor pal Robert Stack were serial horndogs when they were in their 20s and invented a game that guaranteed they'd score. That's according to "Mr. Untouchable," a juicy tell-all bio of Stack now being shopped by his widow, Rosemarie Stack. "One of the great stories in the book is when Jack was 23, Bob was 20, and they figured out a way to get women," Rosemarie's literary agent, Marianne Strong, told Page Six. "They'd have their dates over in Bob's apartment and there'd be drinking and carrying on, and eventually they'd go into the bedroom where they had flags of different countries around the world. And if the girl couldn't identify what country the flag was from, she had to put out.
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During World War II, Stack served as gunnery instructor in the United States Navy. He continued his movie career and appeared in such films as Fighter Squadron (1948), A Date with Judy (1948) and Bwana Devil (1952). In 1954, Stack was given his most important movie role. He appeared opposite John Wayne in The High and the Mighty. Stack played the pilot of an airliner who comes apart under stress after the airliner encounters engine trouble.
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Spending three years in the U.S. Navy as a gunnery officer, Mr. Stack left the service and decided to get his college education and study drama at USC. He joined the skeet shooting team where he came in second place in the national championship; once held the world's record for skeet shooting with 350 consecutive hits. His knowledge of weapons would later come in handy on "The Untouchables." His parents owned horse stables where stars like Clark Cable and Spencer Tracy would rent them for riding and hunting. Mr. Stack's contacts and his good looks, opened the door for him at Universal Studios doing day player parts. His big break came when make up artist, Jack Pierce, told him to dye his blond hair darker and uncurl his hair.
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That story was told with a chuckle by Stack, a man who clearly didn't take himself or life in Hollywood too seriously. ``It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky,'' he said.
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