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...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...
...year-old Louis Streit now proudly recalls: "He was always worrying about people who were bad off in India and other foreign places." Clarence was classified by his family as an idealist like his late mother, Emma Kirshman Streit. Her motto was: "'I can't never did do anything." Clarence believed in the motto...
...smattering of French subsequently landed him in Intelligence. Sergeant Streit, gangling and fresh-faced, served as one of the security guards at the peace conference at Versailles. There he worshiped from afar the man whom he had questioned skeptically as the leader of the war effort-Wilson, now the apostle of a great movement for peace...
Demobbed and back in the U.S., Streit finished his college education at Missoula, went off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent his vacations wandering around Europe, in Paris met and fell in love with blonde Jeanne Defrance. When they married, he had to quit Oxford: he went to work as a newspaperman...
Correspondent Streit covered Mussolini's March on Rome. He went to North Africa for the New York Times to report the peaceful exhuming of an older, buried civilization-Carthage-and found himself reporting the Riff war. He covered the Balkans and ended up finally covering the League of Nations in Switzerland...