Word: clark
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...Betty Grable and Clark Gable face tougher competition south of the border...
Known for extensive marine research in Jamaica, Tobago, Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, and Australia, Clark was the recent recipient of the Clarke Memorial Medal for 1946, described as one of Australia's leading scientific honors, for his zoological research in that country...
...continuing the work of Alexander Agassiz, Clark, who died at the age of 77, is credited with putting the Museum here "among the largest and best organized in the world" because of his additions to the collection of sea stars, brittle stars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers...
After graduating from Amherst, receiving a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, and teaching at Amherst and Olivet, Clark came to Harvard in 1904 to work with Agassiz as assistant in Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum. In 1911, he became curator of Echindorms and, in 1928, was named curator of Marine Invertebrates, a post which he held until July...
Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...