Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
...fast-breaking news for the Star and its sister paper (morning), the Times. At the rewrite desk he took calls from 48 legmen who blanketed the city. When they came slopping into the office, he cornered them for more details of their particular beats. With an eye on the flood query wired to him by TIME, he also kept in touch with city and Army engineers and with Red Cross headquarters, dug up accounts of previous floods from the morgue. By Saturday afternoon, when City Editor Ralph Eades gave him time off to finish the first "takes" of his TIME...
Though he had written of little but the flood for three weeks, Clark got his first look at the flood waters Sunday morning, when, after working all night and sleeping at home for an hour, he was awakened by a call from Barron Beshoar, deputy chief of TIME'S U.S. and Canadian news service, in New York. Beshoar wanted to know when Clark could finish one very necessary part of the flood assignment-an account of the disaster as seen by a family caught...
Clark drove down to Red Cross headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., for a look at the refugee situation there, then crossed the raging Kaw on the Inter City Viaduct into the melee of flood-fighting Kansas City, Kans. Wrote Clark: "Cars loaded with disaster workers were speeding all over the streets, red lights blinking and sirens shrieking. Dazed evacuees milled around . . . Convoys of ten to twenty trucks would form, load up with sweaty, bare-chested men and, led by sirened cars, rush the new volunteers to the scene of the fight...
...found Mrs. Emile LaBorde and family, who had faced the flood with oldtimers' calm (she baked a berry pie after most of their neighbors had fled), then left everything behind and ridden a rescue boat to a disaster station, where they thought of little but the opportunity to get back to their home...