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Homespun, frontier-born Dafoe distrusted noise, excitement and quick results. His tools were tireless industry, forceful writing, lust for information. He found his spiritual home in Winnipeg, when the Free Press's owner, Sir Clifford Sifton, gave him a free hand as editor. When Sir Clifford broke with Canada's great Liberal French leader, Laurier, on the issue of U.S.-Canadian reciprocity, Dafoe supported Laurier. But when Laurier failed to support conscription in World War I, Dafoe broke with him, threw the Free Press weight behind Conservative Sir Robert Borden...
...across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered a medical miracle. The young fireman was burned on 75 to 80% of his body, and lived...
...Small Name. In Valley Falls, N.Y., Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances, arrived from Troy, moved into his new home, found his next-door neighbor is Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances...
...AFFAIR "OF THE FAINTING BUTLER -Clifford Knight - Dodd, Mead...
Last week, not yet 17, Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley, his chest bright with medal and campaign ribbons, leaned back in War Secretary Stimson's office chair, sitting before Robert Todd Lincoln's old desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...