Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says he: "Public speaking meant something in those days. Those men had to speak without microphones to huge crowds...
...Taylor as ground forces commander in the Far East. Lemnitzer learned parachuting at the age of 50, when he took command of the 11th Airborne Division. He was born in Honesdale, Pa., graduated from West Point in 1920. His most publicized wartime experience occurred when he and General Mark Clark waded ashore before the invasion of North Africa. When Clark lost his pants, Lemnitzer lent him his. More important and much less well known is the fact that Lemnitzer, a brilliant staff planner, was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty...
After all the nuclear suspense, most viewers were happy to relax with a pair of agreeable surprises. On NBC's This is Your Life, General Mark Clark began with a soldierly aloofness to the drum-beating enthusiasm of Emcee Ralph Edwards. But as Edwards produced onstage a succession of relatives, Army privates, British comrades-at-arms and ex-West Pointers, the general choked up as humanly as any other mortal. Vividly attractive Mrs. Clark recalled that they had first met on a blind date and that "he was a complete bust." The general affectionately reminded...
General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Into the Night, with Ruth Roman, Eddie Albert, Dane Clark...
...Clark assured the committee that he was not testifying for revenge, however, but to protect the rights of American citizens...