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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Bernd Untiedt...
...Bryan Untiedt, nationally famed schoolboy hero of 1931 (he cared for 14 schoolmates in a blizzard-bound Colorado bus, dined with President Hoover at the White House), joined the Navy in Denver as a carpenter's mate...
...charter an airliner to take him back to camp on time, announced when he arrived in Seattle that he was engaged to cinemambitious blue-blood Cobina Wright Jr. Cobina and mother denied it. Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married...
Last week, Bryan Untiedt was not in West Point but in jail at Golden, Colo., unable to pay a $13 fine for driving a truck without a license. Said Hero Untiedt: "Just because people once said I was a hero doesn't make me any better than the next fellow. I know I should have had a license but I've had a lot of trouble making ends meet and I couldn't spare the money...
...after Hero Untiedt's plight was revealed in Denver newspapers he was rescued-not by one of his former schoolmates but by Denver's 87-year-old Lawyer A. L. Doud, who wired $7 to pay the remainder of his fine...