Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Pittsburgh. N.Y., DeForest Clinton Jarvis graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and in 1909 opened an office in Barre (pop. 12,000), headquarters of the granite-for-tombstones industry. He concentrated on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Now 78, a roughhewn, granitic specimen, he still treats a few patients in an office whose windows are blazoned with his name in letters almost a foot high...
...John '61 21 6:3 198 Altus, Okla. 87 *Strickland, Seth '60 21 6:3 211 Oneida, N. Y. 86 Hanlon, Roger '60 21 6:3 202 Skaneateles, N. Y. 84 Usher, David '62 19 6:2 189 Cuyahoga Falls, O. 83 Jakubsen, Larry '61 19 6:3 203 Clinton, Iowa 82 Mussman, John '62 19 6:1 183 LaGrange, Ill. 81 *Persels, Conrad '61 20 6.0 180 Osceola, Iowa TACKLES 88 Kier, Brock '62 19 6:1 200 El Paso, Tex. 79 *Bowlby, Samuel '60 21 6:3 204 Davenport, Iowa 77 Urban, Benjamin...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
...Clinton boy dragged Bobby Young across the street to a flat, where Bobby fell dead. "Skinny" Krzesinski staggered and crawled to another nearby building, knocked on a door, reached up to the girl who answered the knock, gripped her wrist tightly, and died...
Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...