Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaggy men of the Old Stone Age had their industrial centers too, and one of them was in central Tanganyika, Africa. Last week Anthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago told about extracting thousands of stone tools from what was once a lake bed in the Southern Highlands. The site was discovered in 1951 by a Johannesburg school principal, but not much was done about it until last summer when Dr. Howell arrived with a small expedition (his wife and two graduate students) and hired 35 natives at $1.50 a week...
...radio-station owner in Utica, N.Y., Teen-Age Spokesman Clark won his spurs as a disk jockey while attending Syracuse University, caught on with ABC's WFIL-TV in Philadelphia after graduating in 1951. At first his youthful appearance counted against him. He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it. He got his big chance in July 1956, when he took over Bandstand, a jukebox-and-dance show that had been playing locally for four years...
Pied Piper. So successful were Clark and his teen-agers that in August 1957, ABC put them on the network. To get on the show, teen-agers have hitchhiked from as far away as Texas, and one Buffalo family did not notice a son was missing until he rock 'n' rolled onto the screen. Last month American Bandstand's Trendex rating nearly equaled the combined totals of the two rival networks...
...Clark's daytime showing prompted ABC to hustle him into a Saturday night program called the Dick Clark Show. Since it went on the air in February, minus his dancing couples and with nothing more than recorded and live music, it has doubled the network's rating between 7:30 and 8 p.m., E.S.T...
Such teen-age adulation has brought Disk Jockey Clark offers to make a dozen movies. But to date, Clark's rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...