Word: clausen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting the Helix aspersa, a common orchard variety of snail. The Helix feeds indiscriminately on leaves, twigs and fruit. Up to now, the industry has relied on expensive chemical dusts and sprays; unfortunately, they must be applied almost constantly and they are only moderately effective. Last week Curtis P. Clausen of the University of California's Department of Biological Control announced plans to fight the Helix with one of its own kind: the Gonaxis kibweziensis, commonly known as the cannibal snail...
...record against the giant African snail in the islands of the Pacific. On Agiguan in the Marianas, the Gonaxis destroyed within two years nearly a million of the 5,000,000 African snails whose ancestors were brought in as emergency food by the Japanese during World War II. When Clausen heard that 5,000 Gonaxis snails had been rounded up on Agiguan for anti-pest assignments on other islands, he put in a bid for a consignment of 200. Currently being fed on a diet of Helix snails in the university laboratories, they will be turned loose in the spring...
...would-be Hitler (Claus Clausen) is a pianist-entertainer in a postwar Munich nightclub where Pier Angeli is employed as a hostess. When a U.S. Army Air Force captain (Gene Kelly) becomes romantically involved with Pier, he soon finds that he is also deeply involved in a political underground movement...
...rather intrigued, to say the least, by Mr. Ole Clausen's Nov. 5 letter concerning the supposed incapability of the American people for self-government. Most of the men here who have read the letter feel that either our Danish friend was indulging in a bit of sarcastic humor, or he's one of the most biased and unenlightened demagogues this side of the Iron Curtain...
...agree with your reader, Ole G. Clausen of Copenhagen. I believe the 1776 war was the greatest mistake in modern history. The cause of the war could have been settled by a dozen men around a conference table when disagreement first appeared...