Word: clarke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following their captain, Brayton, the Crimson harriers placed as follows: Dave Simboll fifty-third, Charlie Old-father fifty-fifth, Bill Tuttle sixty-first, Dick Wing seventy-fourth, and Gene Clark one hundred and thirteenth...
...already an expert on sub-helm-hotzhian wave forms and the publisher of some 32 pamphlets on such subjects as the biological effects of high frequency radiation, but now Harry Clark, research associate in Geophysics, has entered the field of writing children's stories...
Although he had never drawn anything but graphs before, Clark's tale is charmingly and cleverly illustrated. He did all his own printing too, and he did it in two months "just in my spare time...
Fifty-three years old, Clark's formal record sounds very like a geophysicist and very unlike a child story teller: Harvard Ph.D. in 1914 with a record of "A's", Phi Beta Kappa, teacher successively at ten colleges such as Radcliffe, Oberlin, Stanford and Victoria in New Zealand, he feels that children's books are too staid, that his are going to be different...
...individual title should be closely contested, but unless there is a marked reversal of form none of the Crimson harriers stand much chance. Captain Clark of Yale established himself as the favorite with a convincing win in a Yale meet over the same course early in the fall, and his victory in the Triangular Race at Princeton has strengthened this 'belief. Observers are also watching Penn State's Billy Smith, last year's Freshman winner...