In 1954 the work of Kenneth Clark and his wife on the effects of segregation on black and white children was influential in the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.

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* 1954 – Clark Johnson, American actor

Measurements of the energy and arrival directions of the ultra-high energy primary cosmic rays by the techniques of " density sampling " and " fast timing " of extensive air showers were first carried out in 1954 by members of the Rossi Cosmic Ray Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clark et al., Phys.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

In 1954, he made his screen début opposite Petula Clark in The Runaway Bus, which had been written for his specific comic talents, but he never became a major film presence.

* Mary Jane Clark ( born 1954 ), suspense novelist.

Television personality Dick Clark resided here from 1954 to 1956 at the Drexelbrook Apartment complex before moving to Wallingford, Pennsylvania, while hosting Barr ’ s Diamond Theater and a radio show on WFIL, prior to being selected to host American Bandstand.

He portrayed serious characters in Betrayed ( 1954 ), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story ( 1955 ), but he made his name playing in a series of films for the Boulting brothers, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Brothers in Law ( 1957 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ), as well as similar films for other producers, for example School for Scoundrels ( 1960 ).

At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, notably Clifford Brown on the 1954 live album Dinah Jams, and also recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, and Ben Webster.

* Justice ( 1954 – 1956 ), starring Dane Clark, Gary Merrill, and William Prince.

The Authority began its operations on 4 August 1954, a mere four days after the Television Act received Royal Assent, under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark.

* Steve Clark ( 1891 – 1954 ), actor

* Jam Session ( EmArcy, 1954 )-with Clark Terry and Maynard Ferguson

* Go, Man, Go !, a 1954 sequel, starring Dane Clark as Abe Saperstein and Sidney Poitier as Inman Jackson.

* Sir George Norman Clark 1954 – 1958

* MG Clark L. Ruffner 1954

Clark saw the song's potential when he heard Hank Ballard's original version, but Ballard and his group, whose greatest hit had been " Work With Me Annie " in 1954, was considered too raunchy to appeal to Clark's teenage audience.

From 1954 until 1965, after retiring from the Army, General Clark served as president of The Citadel, the prestigious military college located in Charleston, South Carolina,.

In 1954, the actor Robert Bray played Emmett Dalton in the episode " The Dalton Gang " of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as fictitious Southwestern Railroad detective Matt Clark.

* Helen Clark ( UK politician ) ( born 1954 )

Originally started in 1954 by Esau Jenkins and Septima Clark on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, the Citizenship Schools focused on teaching adults to read so they could pass the voter-registration literacy tests, fill out driver's license exams, use mail-order forms, and open checking accounts.

In 1954 Romer was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

Also in 1954 Klugman made multiple appearances on the NBC legal drama Justice, starring Gary Merrill and Dane Clark, that was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

As a school district, the District of Columbia has had desegregated schools since 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court decision.

In 1954 – 55, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of Frank Tyson and Statham.

The Aaltos designed and built a joint house-office ( 1935 – 36 ) for themselves in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later ( 1954 – 56 ) had a purpose-built office built in the same neighbourhood-the latter building nowadays houses the Alvar Aalto Academy.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

that the employment of communists within the government was a menace and would be a pivotal issue in the 1954 elections ; Ike was urged to respond directly and specify the various measures he had taken to purge the government of communists.

By the time it closed in 1954, twelve million immigrants had been processed by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

In 1954, the Communist Party had brutally defeated the Pakistan Muslim League and had major influence in poor mass of the East Pakistan.

Visitors to the site in December 1954 reported being deeply shocked by the conditions and the constant screams from the cell-block still in use for convicts who had gone insane and which had only tiny ventilation slots at the tops of the walls under the roof.

By the June 1954 Arbenz had resigned.

By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures ( including a point system from 1 to 15 ) had been agreed upon.

In March 1954, a rough cut still missing several musical numbers was assembled, and Cukor had mixed feelings about it.

When the last scene finally was filmed in the early morning hours of July 28, 1954, Cukor already had departed the production and was unwinding in Europe.

In a famous comment McKenzie ( 1954, p. 179 ) pointed that " A moment's consideration will convince one that Lancashire would be unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England.

By November 1954, it had become clear that the Soviet Union would reject any international custody of fissile material, but that a clearing house for nuclear transactions might be possible.