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Rangy, brash and big-beaked, he was the "American eagle" to an admiring Winston Churchill. Though he took part in three wars, Mark Wayne Clark won his greatest renown as the World War II soldier who led the first army in history to fight all the way up the Italian boot from toe to top. In 1943, at 46, he was the nation's youngest three-star general when he was picked by Dwight Eisenhower to organize the U.S. Fifth Army in Africa. At his death last week of cancer in Charleston, S.C., General Clark, 87, was the last...
...singers for nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs as Fly Me to the Moon and While We 're Young with...
...says that much of Sullivan's world renown rests on a clearly constructed base of publicity and exposure. Every high-fashion magazine ad, "has Connie Sullivan in it," Dod says. "She's a smart business woman, a crackerjack...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Mathew S. Meselson has won international renown for his groundbreaking work in molecular biology and his expertise in biological warfare issues. Most famous is Maselson's pioneering work which has advanced the manipulation of DNA for genetic engineering...
Despite the Crugnales' problems with the growing renown of Steve's, the suddenness of the sale came as a surprise to some employees Fred Baldinelli, the manager of the original Steve's in Somerville, said that he had expected the sale of the chain, but was surprised that it came this soon...