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...native Cincinnatian, Kennedy graduated from Notre Dame in 1955, was soon drafted and sent to Japan. An "entertainment specialist," he directed his Army buddies in such plays as Inherit the Wind and Stalag 17 and after leaving the service, he joined a summer-stock cast of Mr. Roberts. Kennedy next appeared in Chicago as a real-life police reporter with the City News Bureau. "They would have paid me $35 a week," he said, "but I had a college degree...
...Stalag Diaries. After one dismal lunch of rice with rice, the newsmen formed a committee to help run the hotel. Heading the committee was Michael Adams, a former Middle East correspondent for the Guardian who now heads a pro-Arab lobby in London and who was in Amman to negotiate the release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman...
...restricted to the hotel, we had a great deal to write about. From our windows on the war and from a couple of quick expeditions into the streets, we were able to piece together a partial picture of the fighting. Some of us also kept diaries of life inside "Stalag Intercontinental." In the occasional lulls, the sound of typewriters could be heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were evacuated from the Jordanian capital last week were we able to fulfill our assignments...
...Stalag 17½ Peter was 16, a vibrant, defensive manic-about-town. He tried to slow him self down with barbiturates; to little avail. His sister once found him babbling outside school to a bunch of dogs and dubbed him a spaced-out Holden Caulfield. Peter loved, he thought, a girl named Bridget, Brooke Hayward's sister. She took her own life the same year he quit the University of Omaha...
Henry's kid had done theatrical bits in prep school; he had even performed in his own satire, Stalag 17 ½. Now he worked the lights and learned, just like another kid did 30 years before. At 21, he won a part in a Broadway service comedy. Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. Mr. Poole was no Mr. Roberts, but Peter was called another Henry, and it bugged him. "I can hear them in the front row," he griped. " 'It's your old man all over again.' " By the time Peter had made it on stage, his sister was swinging...