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...soon forced up a fingerlike slope-apart from the rest of the battalion and in the very midst of the enemy. Finally taking refuge on a narrow ledge, the isolated platoon fired at the khaki-clad North Vietnamese attackers from as close as five to ten feet. Sergeant Clyde Savage stood up to blast down three of them, found to his horror that his automatic rifle was empty. "I didn't know what to do," he recalls, "so I just said 'Hi' and smiled. All three of them stood looking at me, sort of confused. Then they...
...CLYDE J. WATTS Oklahoma City...
Died. William Clyde DeVane, 67, longtime dean of Yale College (1938-63), a brilliant English scholar (Browning, Tennyson) and teacher who battled for the maintenance of a strong liberal arts curriculum in the face of a mounting tide of "fierce specialization," was hailed for his 1945 reorganization plan (intensified honors, divisional majors) that served as the model for many other U.S. colleges; of heart disease; in Greensboro...
...life forced him to get a nightly ten hours of sleep, sweated a pound off him at every 18-minute performance, and earned him wildly varying sums of money. The Ringling Brothers Circus was paying him only $250 a week when in 1935 he formed the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus. At the height of his fame, a year later, he was earning $3,500 a week. But soon the time of magic would end. "Suckers may still be born every minute," mourned a circusman, "but TV gets them first...
Circus was faltering, but it was still the first love of Clyde Beatty. "I'll never quit," he vowed, and he didn't, performing just last May, at 61, in Long Island. "Oh, I know they'll get me some day," he used to say of his animals. They never did, though. Instead, last week in Ventura, Calif., at about the time the matinee would have started, cancer finally clawed to earth the man who could never abide being called an animal tamer. "If they are tamed," he always said, "there...