Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks with Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower, then to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt. A key Murphy recommendation to General Eisenhower: a top-level U.S. officer should be smuggled into North Africa to persuade friendly French leaders to support the Allied invasion. Ike agreed, selected Lieut. General Mark Clark as his representative...
...Switzerland's Weltwoche in 1954 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1954). The Bulletin version differs considerably from the full Weltwoche one, which may be partially explained by its translation into English for the Flying Saucer Review of London, where the Bulletin found it. As a final touch, Gerald S. Clark, assistant public relations director of A.P.R.O., edited Dr. Jung's article down to a bare statement of belief in the "reality" of flying saucers, and sent it to the Associated Press and United Press International. So Dr. Jung found himself classified as a flying-saucer believer...
...lance magazine writer with "ears like wire recorders." Halfway through Let No Man Write My Epitaph, he slips out of his Lake Shore apartment to sniff at the "great beast of a city" that crouches like a "blue-black panther" in the slum area beyond Chicago's North Clark Street. His socialite wife, Wanda, watches him go: "She smiled, knowing him so well. Prowling. For the story . . . She liked him that way. He should do a novel...
...story chiefly concerns the bastard son of Nick Romano, the young Chicago gangster who walked to the chair in Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself...
...discovering plutonium (the pair also discovered berkelium, californium, four other elements), will leave his post as associate director of the University of California's Radiation Lab at Berkeley to become a fulltime educator. New job: chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus (18,981 students), replacing Clark Kerr, now president of the university (TIME, July...