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...Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success of the crossing...
Nine young French Canadians came home last week, modestly bearing two medals apiece: the Croix de guerre and a "resistance cross." These boys had seen action in Europe long before most of their countrymen...
Four months later, Pfc. Whitehouse was shipped off to Newfoundland. He found it a bleak and lonely post, particularly in spring and summer. To while away the dull evenings, he wrote long letters to Rose. Then one day he met Nurse Theresa St. Croix: "I just met her and had a few dates and that was that...
Early this year Nurse St. Croix gave birth to a baby girl. Private Whitehouse had no hesitation about stepping forward and admitting his responsibility. He talked the matter over calmly with the baby's mother and reported: "She didn't want the baby and she didn't want me." He wrote to Rose, telling her the whole story. Rose did not reply. It took several months in a Newfoundland court, but Nurse St. Croix gladly signed the papers which made Arthur the baby's sole legal guardian. The preoccupied U.S. Army gave Private Whitehouse...
...Author. Born in South Bethlehem, Pa., the son of a vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport wrote poetry for ten years before entering journalism, wrote none for 14 years afterwards. He went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...