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...School in 1915, recently appointed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and sire of Blair Clark, 1939-40 Crimson president, is the gentleman being back-patted. It seems that Federal Judge Clark has a quaintness-appeal. He is a two-fisted, raw-meat-eating, "trouble-shooting" bravadero; and at the same time a judge. This combination might ordinarily react like grapefruit and milk. But when a dash of good old Harvard indifference is thrown in with the mixture the result is something skin to gunpowder. The first big issue on which graduate Clark didn't feel indifferent was the liquor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/19/1941 | See Source »

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