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When he was 16, Ferdinand Demara ran away from his home in Lawrence, Mass. to join the Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, stayed several years under monastic rule. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, soon went over the hill, joined the Navy, became a medical corpsman. His first big bull-throwing exhibition came after he went over the hill again and turned up at the Trappist monastery near Louisville, Ky. claiming to be one Robert L. French, Ph.D. As in his later exploits, Demara had picked his identity from a university catalogue, had in some mysterious way assembled...
...lanes and the River Thames around Painter Spencer's small native Berkshire village of Cookham (pop. 5,900) 27 miles west of London. Burning Bush. The son of a church organist Spencer got his training at London's Slade School of Fine Art, served as a medical corpsman and infantry soldier in World War I before returning to Cookham. It was in Cookham that Spencer had his day of revelation: "Quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning, and this made everything holy. The instinct of Moses to take off his shoes when...
...President's request, the medical staff on duty gathered around his chair. Ike wanted to be sure that everyone who was caring for him got in the pictures. "Be sure to get Sergeant Vaughn up here," said the President. With a snappy "Yes, sir!" a brawny Negro Medical Corpsman stepped up to his side. After the eight-minute appointment ended, Hagerty and the photographers withdrew quietly, and Ike put on his sunglasses and stretched out in the healing...
...German stock. Herb Prochnow was a high-school principal at 20. When the U.S. entered World War I, he volunteered but was turned down for weak eyesight. He wrote to President Wilson, pleading to serve. Presidential Secretary Joseph Tumulty wrote back, telling Prochnow he could become a noncombatant medical corpsman. Prochnow was in Europe within the month, stayed there 14 months on a hospital train...
...luck of a sort that brought Pfc. Ira Hayes to the summit of Mt. Suribachi on the southern edge of battle-torn Iwo Jima as Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal was setting up the dramatic photograph of Hayes, four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag. Everyone who saw it was stirred by the picture; it brought Rosenthai a Pulitzer Prize, was made into a postage stamp, finally became the model for a monument in Washington to the Marine dead of all wars. For Ira, the picture was a prelude to tragedy...