Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model sportswoman, the late Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, used to counsel new horse owners: "Win as if you were used to it and lose as if you liked it." The U.S. today shows little elation over its abundance, or even over the dawning realization that a disastrous depression is never again likely to halt the march of productivity. At the moment in history when this unique economic achievement was recognized, the U.S. lost its long security against heavy enemy attack; it became the first in the line of paramount nations to live in the knowledge that between any nightfall...
Further south in Philadelphia, the bitter factional fight between Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Joseph Clark Jr. and Democratic City Chairman William J. Green has ripped the party apart. As a result, the Third and Fifth Districts, normally Democratic, may shift...
...Doncaster, England, Kentucky-bred Never Say Die romped to a twelve-length victory in the 178th renewal of the St. Leger Stakes and ran off with $37,721 for his American owner, 78-year-old Financier Robert Sterling Clark. Blinking happily through tears, Clark hugged his three-year-old chestnut colt, first American-bred and American-owned horse since 1881 to win both the Epsom Derby (TIME, June 14) and the St. Leger...
Autumn, 1944. Clark Gable of the British intelligence, his lips tight, stares at Lana Turner, whose dress is even tighter. Clark: "Why did you come [to England]?" Lana: "Because I wanted to get into the war." Clark: "How much of yourself would you be willing to give?" Lana gives plenty, and not only in spy school; she has soon passed the kiss test with flying colors-in this case, black and blue. For at 53 Gable (who was recently called by one half-crushed actress "the Pudge Heffelfinger of osculation") still has the he-manliest hug in the business...
...that. So away she flies to Holland to make-or maybe have-a liaison with Victor Mature, the well-known resistance leader. Somebody's resistance is low, it would seem, for when Gable pops in one day, Lana is snoozing comfily in Victor's bed. "Of course," Clark huffs, "outside working hours you're your own mistress." But shortly thereafter Clark becomes convinced that Lana is betraying Victor's intimate secrets to the Germans, and orders her arrest. It takes him an awful long time to discover his mistake...