Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred Clark Scribner, 49, was nominated by President Eisenhower to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for general administration, filling a post that has been vacant since H. Chapman Rose left in early 1956. Born in Bath, Me., Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries...
...script. Raised as a white belle amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
...steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark in the col', col' groun'. In the fury of his ingratitude, he is obliged to cuff Mulatto De Carlo for flouncing around like uppity white trash, even trains an unsteady revolver on Massa Clark himself...
Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...
Investigation. In New Philadelphia, Ohio, Police Chief Louis J. Clark, visiting a gas station that had just been robbed, dropped a piece of paper, bent down, spotted the thief under the desk...