Word: clark
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Still ruddy and erect at 80, Herbert Clark Hoover went up from Washington last week to apartment 31A in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, and packed for a long fishing trip to the California redwood country. He had just finished a 21-month tour of duty as chairman of the second Hoover Commission to study the operations of the U.S. Government. A vice chairman was authorized but never elected-and never needed. Hoover personally recruited each task-force member, supervised the 525-man staff, ran every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports (Legal...
...Another time she told a meeting of Republican women that she and the governor were bedding apart because "we should all make sacrifices in this campaign." In the Democratic landslide, he lost. Brucker went back to law, became partner in a top Detroit law firm (Clark, Klein, Brucker and Waples) and chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on ethics. He never won office again, but as a party district leader dutifully rang doorbells in G.O.P. campaigns. Last year Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson called him to fill the Pentagon's top legal spot as general counsel. Brucker...
Conductor Sirpo abandoned his own conservatory in Finland when the Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife...
Married. Ann Clark Rockefeller, 20, Wellesley senior and elder daughter of Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Nelson A. Rockefeller; and the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 29, Episcopal clergyman; in New York City...
...Happened One Night, with Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert. Director: Frank Capra...