Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CLARK...
...mating season." The good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture had a star," says Levine frankly, "it'd be a flop. Nobody could imagine that even Clark Gable or Victor Mature could do such things. But they never heard of Reeves-a year ago he couldn't have got arrested-so they'll believe anything he does...
...makes the feats even more impressive is Griffith Stadium's pasturelike outfield. There are no near fences to invite Chinese home runs; leftfield is 350 ft. away, centerfield 401 ft., rightfield 320 ft. Faced with this expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious reign: the four sluggers...
...Senate endorsed tax extension, 57-35. But it was a perilous victory for Johnson: all 35 nay votes were cast by Democrats. Analyzing the vote, restive Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark (TIME, July 6) pointed out that a majority of Johnson's Democratic troops were not following him, that he was having his way only through a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Clark then began to circulate a secret tally sheet of seven recent key votes, showing that a heavy majority of Democrats supported liberal amendments, only to see them abandoned or defeated in conference committee by the conservative...
...book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...