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...Canadian navy's interest in the surgeon of the Cayuga seemed to stop right there. It shielded him from reporters who had a host of questions. It did divulge that his real name was. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 29, of Lawrence, Mass.* That was all. Why had he posed as a doctor? "I'm as curious as everyone else is," said Commodore Kenneth Adams, "but it didn't come within the scope of the inquiry to ask him why. And so far as the navy is concerned, he is a doctor. No man without medical knowledge could...
Canadian immigration authorities escorted Demara to the U.S. border, and shooed him across-for entering Canada illegally. But nobody asked him to explain himself, and Demara wasn't talking...
...football player, he did poorly in school, but he memorized all kinds of scientific treatises at home. He became silent, sullen and stubborn. At 16, Fred ran away and became a novice in a Cistercian monastery in Rhode Island. "He was a different boy when he came out," says Demara Sr. He tried two more religious orders, but did not stay...
...father said that Fred next joined the U.S. Navy, but he must have sailed under false colors-there is no record of an enlistment under his real name. Then, said Demara Sr., Fred went over the hill, and began a varied and fantastic career. He taught philosophy at St. Martin's College (enrollment: 277) in Olympia, Wash. He was reported in Los Angeles as "Dr. French." He spent a year at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary as an orderly, shuffling dinner trays and bedpans, under the name of Cecil Boyce Hamann (actually the name of a science professor...