Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from It Was Not My Own Idea
Anyone who reads between the lines of this book, will find in it a vivid picture of an energetic, cheerful, quizzical, and thoroughly courageous personality, which is precisely what Rob Pierce has had through out the more than forty years Of our acquaintance.
At Brown University where he graduated in 1902, he was Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and a varsity quarter miler, his tall, sinewy figure giving him a stride that it was a joy to watch. Even after he became almost blind he used to enter the hundred-yard dash at each successive Fourth of July Grange picnic, asking only that the race be run on a dirt road instead of on grass so that the faint blur of gravel that he could still see might guide him. He never lost but one of these races, and that was when a young competitor with high school track training used a conventional sprint start without Rob's noticing it. Rob himself had never be fore had to use one to win, and this time he realized what had happened just too late. The lad won by a nose with Rob gaining rapidly.
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