Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...
...drum up support for Symington. Around the end of November, Missouri's Governor James Blair will depart on a similar missionary trek to sell the Symington cause, especially to Democratic Governors. Symington's behind-the-scenes strategy board, made up of five Missourians headed by Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford and Congressman Brown, is convinced that any head-on push for the nomination would hurt rather than help Symington's chances of winning...
...Forrestal. When Forrestal became the first Defense Secretary and Symington's boss, Symington fought him again to try to get more Air Force funds-fought with a tenacity that Forrestal's friends will never forgive. "That damn guy never lets up," Forrestal complained to White House Counsel Clark Clifford. "He is absolutely relentless...
...Dough Veteran Richard Clark was even angrier than Cohn, and for a different reason. In his 1958 appearances on the air, Clark won $22,500, but the producers' admission that the show was crooked, said he, has damaged his reputation. Reason: his friends will not believe that he was not in on the fix. He filed a $500,000 suit against NBC, the show's producers (Barry & Enright Productions) and the sponsor (Procter & Gamble). What's more, argued Clark, his eye on an even bigger payoff, the fix cost him a possible $40,000 in winnings...
...Limb. In Denver, Entrepreneurs John Robinson and Vernon Clark were charged by cops with practicing professional tree surgery without a license -and while drunk...