Clint Lane was a fictional baseball and football star that attended the United States Military Academy from California, and who was later commissioned as an officer in the United States Army.
His exploits as a cadet at West Point and, after graduation, as a young Cold War officer were detailed in Colonel Red Reeder's series of books, West Point Plebe, West Point Yearling, West Point Second Classman, West Point First Classman, 2nd Lieutenant Clint Lane: West Point to Berlin, and Clint Lane in Korea.
Famous quotes containing the words clint and/or lane:
“Go ahead. Make my day.”
—Joseph Stinson, screenwriter, and Clint Eastwood. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)
“Making the best of things is ... a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand [ellipses in source].”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)