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Neighbors remember Clifford as a shy boy with "a mass of golden ringlets," who sold Saturday Evening Posts and sang in the Episcopal choir. He was never any trouble. Like most good little boys, he suffered under the inevitable epithet of "sissy." At St. Louis' Washington University he played juvenile leads in college shows. His casting in these parts always caused lively competition from girls who wanted to play opposite him. Then, as now, he was 6 ft. 2 in., very symmetrical, with rippling, taffy-colored hair. He played tennis and sang baritone in the glee club. Toward...
...went off to Europe, met a fellow tourist, blonde Margery Pepperell Kimball from Massachusetts. Their romance bloomed. They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
Diligent Man. As his career waxed, the up-&-coming lawyer began to take an interest in the St. Louis Symphony Society, thus met James K. Vardaman, an old friend of Politician Harry Truman. When "Jake" Vardaman went into the Navy, he left the legal end of his business in Clifford's hands. The Vardaman Shoe Co. was being liquidated. Clifford tied up the loose ends...
...Clifford also joined the Navy as a lieutenant (j.g.)-Sent to make a survey of the Pacific Coast supply situation, he won a citation for "diligence." Vardaman meanwhile had become Harry Truman's naval aide. And when Jake went off to Potsdam with Harry Truman in 1945, he summoned Clifford to man the White House station while he was gone. After Vardaman was made a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Clifford stayed on. He began helping Judge Sam Rosenman to write speeches, and when Rosenman left, the President gave Clifford a full-time...
...American Public. The reasons for Clifford's success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with...