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...National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete his mission. Says Treptow's nephew, Lyle Gehring of Roseville, Calif.: "The diary was found in his uniform pocket. It was quite bloody at the time...
...press in a manner that only deepened the mystery: "The Great Man way up there has said that this show is very important for people all around the world to see. He will give the word when he feels the show is ready. I am waiting for the courier to arrive." There was also much talk about friction between Merrick and Champion. Yet one first-nighter said, "People around the show wanted Merrick to replace Champion. They felt, without knowing how sick he really was, that Gower was just not up to it. But Merrick stuck...
These days Brinkley is trying to finish a book about Washington, D.C., during World War II, with the aid of his son Alan, 30, a teacher at Harvard and M.I.T. His other children: Joel, 28, a reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on Cambodian refugees; John, 24, a student at American University...
Recalls Jones: "One woman called from Miami on the last day of the contest to ask how she could get her pictures to us in time. I said we closed around 4 p.m. Just at four, a special courier came into the office. She had hired him to fly the pictures here and beat the deadline...