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Word: clark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Literati's Battle. Four Supreme Court Justices (Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and Charles Evans Whittaker) joined Brennan in the majority opinion affirming the convictions. Mail-Order Man Alberts' 14th Amendment claim was tossed out the window in short order. But the majority dealt searchingly with Roth's First Amendment argument. Wrote Brennan: "All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance-unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion-have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: On Sex & Obscenity | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand-me-down overalls. "My brothers are dead," he said quietly. "We don't know where daddy is." Haggard Dr. Cevil Clark, Cameron's only physician, trudged doggedly along muddy streets, giving shots, treating and comforting the injured-while two of his own children lay dead as Audrey's victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Audrey's Day of Horror | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...notwithstanding the provisions of ... any other law." At the same time the State Department's own internal regulations prescribed a procedure for clearance that, in some cases, gave the Secretary of State no power at all to act. Last week, by a vote of 8-0 (with Justice Clark not taking part*), the Supreme Court ruled in effect that the State Department's internal regulations took precedence over the congressional rider and thus over the national law. Specifically the court found that Secretary of State Dean Acheson had improperly dismissed Diplomat John Stewart Service, 47, even though Acheson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On a Loyalty Case | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...international school for children to gay Paree, and its steeplechase is a fairly pleasant mixture of the classic slapstick hide-and-go-seek elements of old-time Keystone comedies. The hiders, on the lam from teachers and texts, are two kids, ably though often too cutely played by Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey. (Pipes Bobby: "I don't think it's good for parents to be left alone too much!") The seekers are Bobby's widowed father (ProducerDirector Gene Kelly), a Paris-based U.S. businessman who sneers at the French as inefficient foreigners, and Brigitte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...actors going back to a member of Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre troupe) speaks clearly, but he makes the Duke of Venice far too young. The Duke has a marriageable daughter; and, in Bell's conception, his daughter could not be out of elementary school yet. Larry Gates, Kendall Clark, John Colicos and Jack Bittner are commendable in their supporting roles. In fact, one of the virtues of this company is that everyone has good diction; there are no harsh vowels or dropped consonants...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare's 'Othello' | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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