1. Clinton E Frank was an American football player and advertising executive.
15 Facts About Clint Frank
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Clint Frank played as a halfback for the Yale Bulldogs, where he won both the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award in 1937.
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Clint Frank then attended Lawrenceville School as a post-graduate student.
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Clint Frank attended Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and graduated with a degree in economics in 1938.
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Clint Frank won both the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award for the 1937 season.
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Clint Frank beat out Byron "Whizzer" White for the Heisman Trophy; White later became a justice of the US Supreme Court.
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Clint Frank was selected in the 12th round of the 1938 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, but he did not sign and never played professional football.
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Clint Frank was married to Margaret Rathje Clint Frank, with whom he had three sons and six daughters.
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Clint Frank attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps, serving as an aide to General Jimmy Doolittle during World War II.
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Clint Frank became a full partner in the advertising agency of Price, Robinson and Clint Frank.
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Clint Frank was able to transition this agency into his own with him as owner and president.
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Clint Frank obtained the account in 1969 from famed advertising executive George Lois.
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The Clint Frank Agency created the "El Clan, Braniff" advertising scheme for Braniff's growing South American Route System.
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Clint Frank founded the Brain Research Foundation at the University of Chicago and the Eye Research Institute in Boston.
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Clint Frank died at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois after a brief illness at the age of 76.