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Clayton Douglass Buck, 52, Delaware, a shy, reserved engineer, banker and gentleman farmer who has been called Delaware's "least-known prominent citizen." A descendant of one of the State's oldest families, a relative of the Du Ponts by marriage, he has made a career of public service: in the State Highway Department for nine years, as Governor for eight...
...Least-known of the Green starters is quarterback John Burroughs, a Sophomore who weighs 215 and towers six feet, two inches above terra firma. He is a good blockers, but hasn't had too much experience. And Freshmen Larry Bartnick, Dale Armstrong, and Jack Sayers, all of whom did yeoman work against little Miami of Ohio, round out the Green backs, a formidable set of pigskin toters...
...filtering of a great mind into a new age or country. The year's best-publicized resurgence was that of John Donne, thanks to Ernest Hemingway's last novel. Less flukily the Oxford and Princeton presses between them brought out five volumes by Soren Kierkegaard, perhaps the least-known great mind of the 19th Century. The work of such minds enters the world silently, late, without ingratiation; but it helps restore the very values upon which human life now so conspicuously depends...
...motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old-so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
Died. Richard Farman, oldest and least-known of the three Farman brothers, pioneer airplane designers and builders; in Paris...