Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...
...Kiski has been good to us," said Day. "It gave us our football coach, Carl Snavely. But wouldn't it be wonderful if your boys were as interested in studying as they are in football?" The remark so upset Headmaster Clark that he could scarcely watch the rest of the game (his team lost...
...speech to the nation was almost a repeat of the studied, sober-sided message he had delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
Another sheriff, Walter Clark of Broward County, admitted that most of his income came from a one-third interest in a firm which engaged in a numbers game and held federal licenses for pinball and slot machines. But, he piously protested, he always thought it handled only jukeboxes and cigarette-vending machines...
...counteracted another Red propaganda line at his press conference. Joseph Clark of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker asked why Lie had not cabled MacArthur the same message he had sent to the North and South Koreans, asking them to bar atrocities. (Both sides promised to do so.) Asked Lie angrily: "Don't you know that the U.S. Army has always adhered to the Geneva Convention-always when they have been in action?" The Worker correspondent admitted: "I understand that very well...