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...Clark Clifford, the White House counsel in Truman's time, told a story of how the President dragged General Harry H. Vaughan, the controversial military aide who hated the water and boats, along on a fishing trip. When Truman caught a fish called a Schoolmaster, he showed it with pride to Vaughan. "Look, Harry," said Truman, "I caught a Schoolmaster." Vaughan, slumped miserably on the deck, said, "I don't give a damn if you caught a superintendent of education...
...Muse. Several cities are raising the curtain on a modern form of the Federal Theater Project, which at its height under the WPA in the 1930s employed 12,000 out-of-work actors, directors, playwrights and other stage artists, including Clifford Odets, Orson Welles, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan. The present efforts are also federally financed, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. In Los Angeles, 71 unemployed artists will be organized into acting, dancing and puppeteering troupes, which will tour the city's parks, schools and centers for the aged. In San Francisco, 113 jobs have been created...
...specter of a "bloodbath" of a million people if South Viet Nam fell. Apparently that stems from the claim by Richard Nixon five years earlier that 1½ million Catholics who fled to the South would be killed if South Viet Nam fell. Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford did some research at the time and found a little more than half that many Catholics had fled South and about the same number stayed in North Viet Nam and were not touched by the Communists. Further, the original contention that countless thousands had been slaughtered when North Viet Nam went...
After the conference Clifford M. Lewis '76, a member of the board, was upset that the Model U.N. hadn't accumulated as big a profit as he expected--so he went to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and complained...
...fencing squad has two more meets remaining before the team championships at Northeastern, March 9. The fencers, under the instruction of Clifford Powers, meet Wellesley tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Radcliffe gym, and host Yale next Saturday...