Word: everit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where Cockroaches Abound." Chris Herter tried to join the Army in 1917, but was turned down for being too tall and too skinny, instead took the Foreign Service exams. On the day he was notified that he had passed, he learned that his brother Everit, one year older, had been killed by German shrapnel. In his grief, Christian Herter (who is convinced that his brother would have been a great painter if he had lived) resolved somehow to spend his life working toward the cause of world peace...
...Architecture and New York's School of Fine and Applied Art. A Harvard classmate talked him into taking a minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned the diplomatic pastime into a passion that never dwindled. After his elder brother Everit was killed in France with the A.E.F., Chris Herter resolved to make the achievement of peace his lifetime's mission...
...Harvard classmate who had gone into the foreign service talked him into accepting a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin. When America entered World War I, Herter returned to the U.S. and volunteered for military service, but was rejected as overtall and underweight. His elder brother Everit was killed in France with the A.E.F...