Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
...biggest crowds of all will go to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, a 79-year-old institution rich in legends of escaped animals (two of its sea lions once flopped into a North Clark Street saloon), and one of the chief ornaments of Chicago's tiara-like lake front. The Lincoln Park Zoo is not the nation's biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location...
...last week, a dozen record companies had rushed new versions (by Ted Weems, Clark Dennis) of Fisher's old tune onto wax to cash in on the great revival. Alfred Bryan, 75, who wrote the lyrics, will get some return from it, but Fred Fisher's share will go to his heirs. Sick and no longer able to turn out hit tunes, he hanged himself five years...
...fire. With a 5,500-word message which left no doubts as to which side he had picked, he vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Harry Truman had chosen the Left side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line leftist...
...Last Look Around (295 pp.)-Clark Lee -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75); Star-Spangled Mikado (282 pp.)-Frank Kelley and Cornelius Ryan-McBride...