Clyde Tombaugh - I was always looking ahead. I...

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

Clyde Tombaugh

American Scientist

Born: Feb 4, 1906

Died: Jan 17, 1997

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