Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heiress who zealously seines big names from Washington's social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise and confidence...
...servicemen (total enrollment: 2,000) came from the ranks, 67 other cadets had also served as officers, in either the Army, Navy, Coast Guard or Marine Corps. Among them were two captains, 17 first lieutenants, 44 second lieutenants and four ensigns. Like ex-Major Clark, almost all had missed a college education, were convinced that by spending four years at the Point they would eventually further their careers...
...only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...
Sweethearts (book by Harry B. Smith & Fred De Gresac, with revisions by John Cecil Holm; music & lyrics by Victor Herbert & Robert B. Smith; produced by Paula Stone & Michael Sloane) emerges after 33 years as a vehicle-a sort of quaint old hearse-for Bobby Clark. It belongs to the Balkan Age of operetta, when princes wooed village maids who eventually turned out to be princesses in disguise, and the most personal and private crises were resolved in the village square...
Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...