- Burt L Standish
- Gilbert Patten— creator of the American boy hero—Frank Merriwell
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Burt L Standish
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Standish — /stan dish/, n. 1. Burt L., pseudonym of Gilbert Patten. 2. Myles or Miles /muylz/, c1584 1656, American settler, born in England: military leader in Plymouth Colony. * * * … Universalium
Gilbert Patten — William George Gilbert Patten (October 25, 1866 January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish.BiographyGilbert Patten was born in Corinna, Maine in… … Wikipedia
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Frank Merriwell — was the fictional creation of Gilbert Patten, who wrote under the pseudonym Burt L. Standish. The model for all later American juvenile sports fiction, Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving… … Wikipedia
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Patten — /pat n/, n. Gilbert ( Burt L. Standish ), 1866 1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories. * * * … Universalium
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