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...Mike Clare, a star for Rutherford High School who had only recently grown into his elephant frame, came to Cambridge and was greeted by 6'4, 285-lb. left tackle Matt Birk '98. Birk was in the midst of a breakout season, a quantum leap in development that ultimately left him over 300 lbs. and the starting center for the Minnesota Vikings. But on that day his assignment was Clare...
...Birk was just amazing to me," Clare said. "He was my host on my recruiting visit and just took me under his wing. Meeting him was one of the reasons I came to Harvard...
...freshman season, Clare stood on the sidelines watching Birk manhandle his opposition, often blocking two defenders at once. The Crimson steamrolled all Ivy foes en route to its first-ever undefeated season in the conference. When the NFL beckoned Birk, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy found that he had left behind the perfect replacement...
...Clare, the current captain of the football team, now stands at 6'4, 315 lbs., every bit the NFL prospect Birk was his senior season...
...kind of ticket that could not fail to sweep the Republican Party back into power" (miracles happen). The magazine was also fulsome in its coverage of the speech by Luce's wife: "The roar of applause was punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech; that Harry Truman is 'a gone goose.' The Democrats, she said, were divided into 'a Jim Crow wing led by lynch-loving Bourbons, a Moscow wing masterminded by Stalin's Mortimer Snerd, Henry Wallace, and a Pendergast wing run by the wampum and boodle boys...