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...little success as a prolific writer of western thrillers for the Beadle & Adams publications. He was nearing the end of his rope of ideas when in 1895 Street & Smith, publishers, proposed the juvenile series about a single character who "should have a name like Dick Lightheart, Jack Harkaway, Gay Dashleigh." Author Patten, aspiring to be a playwright, seized upon the plan as a "potboiler." He conceived his hero: "His face was frank, open and winning but the merry light that . . . dwelt in his eyes. . . ." Frank Merriwell was born April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero Business | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Referee-W. O. Hickok (Yale). Umpire-Paul Dashleigh (Lehigh). Linesman-H. C. Wyckoff (Cornell). Time-35-minute halves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD VS. PRINCETON. | 11/7/1896 | See Source »

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