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...crowd at Beirut's airport was a spry little Arab in a long white gown and a white skullcap, sandals on his feet and a light of wonder in his eyes. At 71, Ahmed Youssef Murad-sometime Montana homesteader, World War I doughboy, Kentucky restaurant owner and elder of a mosque in Damascus-was happy. "My hadj was a gift of God," he said. "I will do it again if I live...
...Ford!" cracked one. "It's not a whodunit, but a hedunit," cried another, in good doughboy English...
...their battle to remove the name of "homoerotic" Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery...
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall is a newspaperman (Detroit News) and a World War I doughboy who became the Army's chief historian in Europe in World War II. As historian, he quickly learned that the usual military records convey neither the look nor the sound of battle. But by questioning everyone from rifleman to army group commander-and fitting the answers together-"Slam" Marshall soon developed a way of describing war, e.g., Island Victory, Bastogne, that made other service histories sound like business balance sheets...
Following graduation he stayed on in Cambridge to work for his Ph.D. When war came he at first volunteered for the army, but was persuaded by his associates that he could contribute more to the Allied cause as a researcher than as a slightly-underweight and very academic doughboy. Dutifully he proceeded to a small factory in Willoughby, Ohio where the army was developing poison gas. He worked out a method of preparing mustard gas on a large scale, and contributed to the original discovery of deadly Lewisite...