Word: kent
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...sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became a successful paint manufacturer...
Superman's personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...
...coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown element-cigarette tar!-that Superman turns bad and fights the still good Clark Kent to the death and beyond...
...Harvard Oration, James Kent Walker '83 observed that two cultural pillars of his generation stopped this year--the television series "M*A*S*H," and Doonesbury Walker remarked that the main characters in both series set an example for commitment "to make the world better." And for the Class of 1983. Walker added, "nothing says this commitment has to be political...
DIED. Kenneth Clark, 79, genial and erudite British art historian, whose 1969 BBC (and PBS-aired) television series Civilization brought him transatlantic praise and popularity; in Kent, England. An unhappy only child of the idle rich, Clark spent a post-Oxford two years in Florence steeping himself in Renaissance art. At 30, he became the youngest director in the history of London's National Gallery. Between knighthood (1938) and the award of a life peerage (1969), Lord Clark wrote a score of books, maintained heady friendships (Winston Churchill, Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles...