Word: clark
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...shall be accused of being a highbrow, but that just can't be helped." With these defensive words, Chairman of the Arts Council Sir Kenneth Clark last week accepted the chairmanship of Britain's Independent Television Authority, whose job is to bring the first commercial TV to a nation long accustomed to the often soporific British Broadcasting Corp. Sir Kenneth, 51, was formerly director of the National Gallery, Slade professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and wartime member of the Ministry of Information. His six-man board is equally highbrow and includes ex-Teacher Margaret Popham, who does...
...satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale of a mousy English teacher whose personality splinters until finally he enters his classroom "stark naked except for his spectacles and a Whittier in his right hand...
...housekeeper who answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next door, where for years he waited out his Washington exile. His verdict: "It's run down...
Died. Bennett Champ Clark, 64, onetime (1933-45) U.S. Senator from Missouri, son of the famed (1911-19) Speaker of the House Champ Clark; of a heart ailment; in Gloucester, Mass. As aide and understudy to his father, Bennett Clark, at 22, maneuvered desperately behind the scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best...
Pressure & Favoritism. After talking to Clark, Whitehair and Fly took the matter up with Assistant Attorney General Caudle. "We sure talked to these people a lot of times," Caudle related...