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From space to Perth to Manhattan to New Concord, Ohio, is a long way, but finally, John Glenn came home. And all along the way-in New Jersey at Newark Airport; in Zanesville, Ohio, where 4,000 turned out along the newly renamed John Glenn Highway; and at last in his home town, New Concord-the smiling astronaut was acclaimed by roaring crowds, warm praise, blaring bands, flapping bunting, and all the affection the entire nation once in a blue moon showers on a new Public Hero...
...heavily Republican New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's parents are solidly Democratic...
...that only those on the inside knew about at the time, but TIME has over the past weeks sought out dozens of people who knew John Glenn when, Ted Williams, the baseball player who served with Glenn in the Marines, a minister who was his boyhood companion in New Concord and remembers his enthusiasms for Glenn Miller and Buck Rogers, his old commanding officer in Korea, all provide chips of bright color that fit into the mosaic of Astronaut Glenn's life...
Strict Code. He was raised in New Concord (pop. 2,000), a quiet, shirt-sleeves-and-overalls town in central Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed...
...Glenn entered Muskingum College, a small Presbyterian school in New Concord. He was a substitute center on the football team, got solid B grades, and schemed to get into the war as a pilot. He learned to fly in a Navy program for civilians at New Philadelphia, 35 miles away, then quit college as a junior to join the Navy's preflight program. In 1943 he took the Navy's option to join the Marine Corps, and won his gold wings and gold second lieutenant's bars. Then, resplendent in his dress blue uniform, he came back home...