Word: demara
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
Tired of ward routine, Demara took to religion again. Shuttling back & forth across the Maine-New Brunswick border between two religious houses, he met the real Dr. Cyr and won his confidence. "Dr. Hamann" never betrayed himself in his medical shoptalk. At St. Romuald in Quebec, "Dr. Hamann" became "Brother John." But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N...
...Demara had been tried for the illegal practice of medicine, a court psychiatrist might have unraveled the full story of his personality. And all concerned, including his father, might have learned how Demara picked up his skill as a surgeon...