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"Werner Lueg (16 September 1931 - 13 July 2014) was a West German middle distance runner who equalised Lennart Strand's and Gunder Hägg's 1500 m world record in 3:43.0 min in Berlin in 1952. Along with Otto Peltzer he is the only German to have held the 1500 m world record. He also won a bronze medal over 1500 m at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The Olympic final was won by Josy Barthel. Lueg was born in Brackwede, near Bielefeld. References *Werner Lueg's profile at Sports Reference.com *Werner Lueg's obituary Category:1931 births Category:2014 deaths Category:German male middle-distance runners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes of West Germany Category:Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Category:World record setters in athletics (track and field) Category:Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Category:Sportspeople from Bielefeld Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) "
"Edward Clodd (1 July 1840 – 16 March 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist. He had a great variety of literary and scientific friends, who periodically met at Whitsunday (a springtime holiday) gatherings at his home at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Biography Although born in Margate, where his father was captain of a trading brig, the family moved soon afterward to Aldeburgh, his father's ancestors deriving from Parham and Framlingham in Suffolk. Born to a Baptist family, his parents wished him to become a minister, but he instead began a career in accountancy and banking, relocating to London in 1855. He was the only surviving child of seven.Joseph McCabe, Edward Clodd: A memoir, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1932, p.1. Edward first worked unpaid for six months at an accountant's office in Cornhill in London when he was 14 years of age. He worked for the London Joint Stock Bank from 1872 to 1915, and had residences both in London and Suffolk. He married his first wife Eliza Garman, a doctor's daughter in 1862. He had eight children with Eliza, though two died when they were young. In his old age, he married his secretary, Phyllis Maud Rope (born 1887), who survived him by 27 years. Clodd was an early devotee of the work of Charles Darwin and had personal acquaintance with Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer. He wrote biographies of all three men, and worked to popularise evolution with books like The Childhood of the World and The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution. Clodd was an agnostic and wrote that the Genesis creation narrative of the Bible is similar to other religious myths and should not be read as a literal account. He wrote many popular books on evolutionary science.Bernard Lightman. (1997). Victorian Science in Context. University of Chicago Press. pp. 222–223. He wrote a biography of Thomas Henry Huxley and was a lecturer and populariser of anthropology and evolution.Francis O'Gorman. (2010). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 28. He was also a keen folklorist, joining the Folklore Society from 1878, and later becoming its president.Rosemary Hill. (2008). Stonehenge. Harvard University Press. p. 134. He was a Suffolk Secretary of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia from 1914 to 1916. He was a prominent member and officer of the Omar Khayyam Club or 'O.K. Club', and organised the planting of the rose from Omar Khayyam's tomb on to the grave of Edward Fitzgerald at Boulge, Suffolk, at the Centenary gathering. Clodd had a talent for friendship, and liked to entertain his friends at literary gatherings in Aldeburgh at his seafront home there, Strafford House, during Whitsuntides. Prominent among his literary friends and correspondents were Grant Allen, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Edward Fitzgerald, Andrew Lang, Cotter Morison, Samuel Butler, Mary Kingsley and Mrs Lynn Linton; he also knew Sir Henry Thompson, Sir William Huggins, Sir Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhys, Paul Du Chaillu, Edward Whymper, Alfred Comyn Lyall, York Powell, William Holman Hunt, Sir E. Ray Lankester, H.G. Wells and many others as acquaintances. His hospitality and friendship was an important part of the development of their social relations. George Gissing's close friendship with Clodd began when he accepted an invitation to a Whitsuntide gathering in Aldeburgh in 1895.Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.371. Skepticism Clodd was Chairman of the Rationalist Press Association from 1906 to 1913.Whyte, Adam Gowans (1949). The Story of the R.P.A. 1899–1949. London: Watts & Co. p. 58 He was skeptical about claims of the paranormal and psychical research, which he wrote were the result of superstition and the outcome of ignorance.Luckhurst, Roger. (2002). The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901. Oxford University Press. p. 163. He criticised the spiritualist writings of Oliver Lodge as non-scientific.Cooke, Bill. (2004). The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association. Prometheus Books. p. 80 His book Question: A Brief History and Examination of Modern Spiritualism (1917) exposed fraudulent mediumship and the irrational belief in spiritualism and Theosophy.Edward Clodd Clouts the Spiritualists. The Sun. Sunday, March 10, 1918. Works The following list is incomplete. Biographies of Darwin, Wallace, Bates and Spencer exist. * 1872: The Childhood of the World * 1880: Jesus of Nazareth. Kegan Paul, London. * 1882: Nature Studies. (with Grant Allen, Andrew Wilson, Thomas Foster and Richard Proctor) Wyman, London. * 1888: The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution * 1891: Myths and Dreams. Chatto & Windus, London. * 1893: The Story of Human Origins (with S. Laing). Chapman & Hall, London. * 1895: A Primer of Evolution Longmans, Green, New York. * 1895: The Story of "Primitive" Man. Newnes, London; Appleton, New York. * 1896: The Childhood of Religions. Kegan Paul, London. * 1897: Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley. Grant Richards, London. * 1898: Tom Tit Tot: An essay on savage philosophy in folk-tale. * 1900: The story of the Alphabet. Newnes, London. * 1900: Grant Allen: A Memoir. * 1902: Thomas Henry Huxley. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. * 1905: Animism: the seed of religion. Constable, London. * 1916: Memories. Chapman & Hall, London. * 1917: The Question: If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?. E. J. Clode, New York. * 1920: Magic in Names & Other Things. Chapman & Hall, London. * 1922: Occultism. The Hibbert Journal. * 1922: Occultism: Two Lectures. Watts & Co, London. * 1923: The Ultimate Guide to Brighton, England. McStewart & Earnshaw, London. Gallery Image:Edward_Clodd_with_associates.jpgA group photo outside his Aldeburgh home: Thomas Hardy in the centre Image:Edward_Clodd_and_Phyllis_née_Rope.jpgEC with his second wife, Phyllis née Rope References *Dictionary of National Biography article by E. S. P. Haynes; revised for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by J. F. M. Clark. *Joseph McCabe. (1932). Edward Clodd: A Memoir. John Lane. External links Archival material at Category:1840 births Category:1930 deaths Category:Critics of parapsychology Category:Critics of Theosophy Category:English agnostics Category:English anthropologists Category:English male non-fiction writers Category:English non-fiction writers Category:English sceptics Category:People from Margate Category:Rationalists "
"Kerry Drake is the title of a comic strip created for Publishers Syndicate by Alfred Andriola as artist and Allen Saunders as uncredited writer. It debuted on Monday, October 4, 1943, replacing Norman Marsh's Dan Dunn, and was syndicated continuously through June 26, 1983. According to Saunders, Dan Dunn rivaled Dick Tracy in pioneering themes and techniques of the American detective comic—until 1942 when Marsh had an argument with Publishers Syndicate and "stormed out." The syndicate then had Saunders (as writer and the syndicate's comics editor) and artist Andriola take over the abandoned newspaper strip and subsequently replace it in 1943 with a new detective strip, Kerry Drake.Saunders, Allen. 1983-6. Autobiography "Playwright for Paper Actors," Nemo, the Classic Comics Library, no. 4-7, 9, 10, 14, 18, 19. Among Andriola's many assistants or ghosts over the years, specifically in drawing, were artists Hy Eisman, Jerry Robinson, Fran Matera and most notably Sururi Gümen, the last of whom worked on the strip for 30 years and shared credit with Andriola from 1976 to 1983.Kerry Drake at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Eisman has said he ghosted the strip from 1957 to 1960. Characters and story When the strip began, Drake was a criminal investigator for the district attorney. Later, after the murder of his secretary and fiancée, Sandy Burns, by Trinket and Bulldozer, he left the DA's office and joined his city's police force. Kerry fought Dr. Prey, the Man with No Face, and many others. The stories had plenty of suspense, action and danger, but unlike Dan Dunn, who had followed early Dick Tracy in often explosive shoot-out resolutions of crime, the emphasis was on how Drake traced clues with up-to-date crime analysis tools to solve complex cases that gradually unfolded and intrigued readers. White- haired Drake was attractive and intelligent, while his nefarious opponents were initially drawn with facial distortion (an evil-is-ugly convention for villains that was also found in the cartooning of Pete Hoffman and Chester Gould). Under Gumen, however, the artwork became more consistently photorealistic. Meanwhile, Drake advanced in his career and developed in his personal life as Saunders combined action and drama. In 1957, Drake married Mindy, a police widow, and when they had quadruplets, he had to balance the conflicting demands of work and family. His younger brother, private eye David, better known as Lefty, then took over more of the adventuring and case resolution. Awards and reprints right In 1970, Andriola received a Reuben Award for "Kerry Drake by Alfred Andriola," without acknowledging that it was written by Saunders and ghost-drawn by Gumen.Marschall, Rick. "Kerry Drake," Nemo, the Classic Comics Library. No. 19, June 1986. Saunders quit shortly after that, at which point Andriola became the official writer, although even then, according to Markstein, he hired ghost authors. That Andriola had, for many years, been doing nothing, not even inking or lettering, on the strip - other than collecting the credit and the lion's share of the remunerative rewards - was fairly well known to comics industry professionals, resulting in the thinly-veiled comic story Success Story in the 1964 debut issue of Warren Publishing's black&white; horror-comic magazine Creepy. In the story, written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Al Williamson, a successful strip creator, Baldo Smudge, has been farming out the various tasks involved in his strip to a ghost writer, ghost penciller, and ghost inker. When all three 'ghosts' meet due to unfortunate timing outside Smudge's house, they march in as a trio to demand fair credit and wages. Smudge kills all three and throws their bodies in a swamp - of course the corpses come back to exact revenge. When Andriola died in 1983, Drake ended with him, with the last strip running June 26, 1983. After the strip no longer was produced for American newspapers, a comic book version was produced by the Swedish publisher Semic Press from 1984 through the late 1990s. Many of the earlier episodes were republished in comic book form by Harvey Comics and later by Blackthorne Publishing in its Reuben Award Winner Series.NCS Awards Cultural mentions In Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film Lolita, Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers) is seen reading Kerry Drake in a hotel lobby. ReferencesSources *Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995. . External links *Fred Waring Collection: Kerry Drake Category:1943 comics debuts Category:1983 comics endings Category:Adventure comics Drake, Kerry Category:American comic strips Drake, Kerry Category:Crime comics Category:Detective comics Category:Drama comics Drake, Kerry Drake, Kerry "