Leaving law school, Clarke turned to journalism, going first to the New Haven Journal- Courier, then to the Baltimore Sun, and finally to Time magazine. And when I write, I try to hold myself to the same standard.' When I read any kind of nonfiction, I expect the writer to offer proof-real evidence-for such assertions. Who knows? And just because two attractive people are alone in a room doesn't necessarily mean they are making love.

The other may be looking down or may be brooding over an argument he had with his wife. One may be looking up or have his eye on someone across the street. Just because two people pass each other on the street-to give one homely example-doesn't mean they see each other. And what was that? I learned never to assume, never to jump to conclusions, always to examine the evidence.

But if I learned only one thing at Harvard, my time was not wasted. 'I soon discovered I didn't have either the desire or the temperament to be a lawyer,' he says, 'and I left at the beginning of my second year. And Europe was the best postgraduate school in the world.' Returning home, his sights set on becoming a lawyer, he began studies at Harvard Law School. 'In those days the dollar was strong, and you did not have to be rich to travel overseas. 'One of the best and most interesting years of my life,' he calls that period. He graduated from Yale, where he majored in English and American literature, then spent a postgraduate year traveling around Europe. Courtesy Architectural Digest About Gerald Clarkeīorn in California, Gerald Clarke spent most of his childhood in Los Angeles, his teens in Ohio.

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