Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College vote, which was completed last Friday, also returned Joan McPartlin '49, of Cambridge, as vice-president of the organization, Alice Stetson Clark '50, of Darien, Connecticut and 6 Acacia Street, as secretary, and Joan Braverman '50, of Lowell and Briggs Hall as treasurer...
Something for the Boys. Clark Clifford was not alone responsible for this new order. The White House in 1948 is a very different place from what it was in the turbulent Roosevelt days when nobody knew who was seeing the boss, let alone who was writing him memos. The Truman circle is narrower; and so are the men who directly serve the President. Besides Clifford, the innermost ring includes...
...place behind the throne than there had been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco...
...chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark has put himself on the same wave length with Mr. Truman." As a more critical observer put it: "He has succeeded perfectly in articulating the mediocrity of the Truman Administration...
With the score knotted at four apiece going into the final period, the Blue sextet sent four goals past Crimson goalie Phil Clark in the third frame to triumph, 8 to 5. Anderson paced the losers with two goals...