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Attendees of the first Stars and Stripes Alumni Association Reunion in Las Vegas, 1989. Recalling 25 years of reunion history

— By Toshi Cooper (PSS ‘49- ’71) first informal reunion on May 7, 1989 at little Japanese eatery a few blocks away for It was sad news for me when our Orlando a Mr. Steak restaurant in Anaheim, Calif. yakitori, beer etc. It was just like old times. reunion last year had to be canceled. Total attendees -- 14. The late Sandy Colton (PSS ‘51-’52, ‘54- And it got me to thinking about the history Later that month the second mini-reunion ’61) and his wife Irene were always ready of our association and what a wonderful was held, this one at Martin’s Saratoga to host mini-reunions at their magnificent quarter-of-a-century journey it has been. home. Seven ex-staffers and spouses log cabin home in the Adirondacks. The attended. sukiyaki, sake, Sapporo and stories flowed. I have been fortunate to be able to attend After McBride became our West Coast every reunion and, as a lifelong newspaper Here comes the first actual reunion. regional representative, there were more librarian, have tried to keep a record of our Our first, full-scale reunion was held in mini-reunions and our membership events. So let’s take a look back at how it 1989 -- 25 years ago. It may sound like a continued to grow. all started. long time ago, but for me that Las Vegas Now it was not just the Pacific staffers meeting seems like yesterday. The first issue of our Alumni News was meeting up — we were being joined by published in December 1988. It was put It was a fine reunion, a total success. But folks who had been with the European together in the home of the late Maury there was one jaw-dropping problem. The edition and even the Mid-Pacific edition. Martin (PSS ‘60-’64) in Saratoga, Calif., site of the affair, the Sheffield Inn, did not We were growing and it was wonderful. with the help of the late Francis Casey have a bar, or a restaurant or a single slot (PSS ‘51-’52, ‘60-’67) and several others One of the biggest mini-reunions on the machine. of us. East Coast was March 10, 1990. Thanks With blinding speed, the nearest watering to organizer Paula Bernstein (PSS ‘55- hole was located (only a stagger away) and Soon, contacts about former staffers of the ’56) we met at Maguire’s Pub, across the Pacific newspaper were rolling in. Martin’s the party commenced. Total attendees were street from the Daily News in Manhattan. 56, of which 36 were members. list reached 700 names. By spring of the About 30 people, including 16 ex-Stripers, Many of us had not seen each other for following year, 73 ex-Stripers had joined had that little bar rocking. People came nearly 40 years since saying sayonara in this new alumni group. Dues were $5. from Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Tokyo. But we had no problem recognizing Then those new West Coast members got upstate and suburban New York, the city old friends. The excitement was erupting fired up about getting together. The late itself, even Colorado. When our time at Lyle McBride (PSS ‘54-’70) arranged their Maguire’s was up many of us invaded a See Reunion Page 4 2 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS Happy New Year 2015

Stars and Stripes Association Inc. is a California non-profit An important note corporation with more than 300 members worldwide. from the president Address, 1510 West Nottingham, Anaheim, CA 92802 It was a sad day when the CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICES: Calvin Posner, board voted unanimously to membership manager, P.O. Box 674525, Marietta, GA 30006- cancel the Orlando reunion, 0076 or [email protected] then decided to put future In memory of Maurice (Maury) Martin, Col., USAF (Ret.), reunions on hold because of whose efforts as co-founder made this association possible. plunging attendance. It was also a day to remi- OFFICERS nisce about the many years President: Mike Mealey, 337 Applebrook Drive, Malvern, PA of great times and memories 19355, phone 610-722-0783, Fax 610-722-0784, e-mail we all hold as members [email protected] of the association. Thanks to the great work of Maury Martin, Vice President and Secretary: Ron Goben, P.O. Box 502, Toshi Cooper, Lyle McBride and many others, the Stars and Camino, CA 95709, phone 530-647-0511, e-mail rong@ Stripes Association has had far greater success than anyone directcon.net could have predicted during its moderate startup. Especially when Lyle put together the first international reunion in a Las Membership Manager and Treasurer: Calvin Posner, P.O. Box Vegas hotel with NO BAR!!! 674525, Marietta, GA, 30006-0076, phone 800-819-2028 or e-mail [email protected] In the past quarter century the reunions not only united us with old (and new) friends and colleagues but hosted informa- DIRECTORS tive speakers and took us to great locations across the country. Chairman Emeritus: Toshi Cooper, 15 Possum Hollow Road, Toshi has done a remarkable job of recapping our history for her Newark, DE 19711, phone 302-454-6488, e-mail tgmcooper@ article in this issue. comcast.net In a way, we are back to where we started: the board is encour- Jim Hummel, 3023 Delta Road, San Jose, CA 95135, phone 408- aging members to again attempt to put together chapter lunches 270-2349, e-mail [email protected] or dinners that served to get the association going in its infancy. And Toshi is working her magic to perhaps organize less formal Max D. Lederer, Jr., Publisher, Stars and Stripes, 529 14th St., reunions that do not require financial and room guarantees that NW, Washington, DC 20045 [email protected] were typical in the past. Walt Trott, P.O. Box 477 Madison, TN 37116-0477,phone 615- Toshi has been the glue that has held this association together 868-3248, e-mail [email protected] for all these years, but she has had invaluable help from the edi- Bob Trounson, 446 Theresa Lane, Sierra Madre, CA 91024, tors of our newsletter. Joe Schneider has been our current editor phone 626-355-0570, e-mail [email protected] for the past several years, preceded by the late Ron Hatcher, Frank Praytor, the late Bill Lopez, the late Harry Swiderski, the Newsletter editor: Joe Schneider, 4053 Mount Brundage Ave., late Maury Martin and the late Pete Craigmoe in that order. San Diego, CA 92111, phone 858-278-0394, e-mail aztecjoes@ aol.com Finally, a plea. PLEASE contribute to the newsletter. Your memories from Stripes or those of the association are welcome. ALLIED WITH And if you live in an area that serves as home for other members The Stars and Stripes Museum/Library Association please consider chairing a chapter event. By setting up phone Inc.®, P.O. Box 1861, Bloomfield, MO 63825. Phone/Fax trees your jobs would be made easy. 573-568-2055. Joe Baker, President; Deloris May, Museum Thank you for your support. I hope the future brings us together Manager, e-mail [email protected], website www. again. starsandstripesmuseumlibrary.org — Mike Mealey, President Stars and Stripes Association News Editorial matter about The Stars and Stripes and Stripers should Join us on Facebook! be sent directly to the editor, who reserves the option to edit Visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ copy. Neither the association nor the editor attests to the accuracy StarsAndStripesAssociation to stay up to date on the of submitted articles published. Views expressed by authors are latest news and reunion announcements, to share photos their own. or just to catch up with old friends! Happy New Year 2015 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS 3 As his entry in Wikipedia states, “He often wondered what happened with the recalled in 1961 that in his early years reports that unit produced. They would as a writer he had been ‘about as big a make very interesting reading.) failure as a man can be’. He claimed to John and I did get together after he have written six complete novels, 26 came to Tokyo. He met Joan Corrigan plays, and a hundred short stories before and apparently got a lot of useful completing his first sale, a short story for information. He also visited the Tokyo Orville Moody (left) and John Toland (right). which he was paid $165 in 1954.” offices of McGraw-Hill, the publishers, His name was John Toland, and we where he met a young Japanese woman A couple of winners became friends. When we compared our who was very helpful. In pretty short — By Jim Shaw (PSS ‘59-’67) schedules it looked like we’d both be order, he proposed to her and they were in Tokyo around the same time, so we married a few weeks later. Kaoru (who On assignment in Manila, I met two agreed to get together. And I gave him a was not yet my wife) and I went to the fellow travelers who later went on to lead on someone there who could give wedding reception. reach the top in their respective fields. him valuable help with his research. Her I never heard from John after that, arrived at Tokyo Stripes in May 1959 name was Joan Corrigan, an Australian but I heard of him. He became a well- and not long who was the respected author of historical non-fiction, after was sent head of a U.S. including a highly regarded biography Ito the Philippines of Adolf Hitler, to do some and he won a feature stories. I Pulitzer Prize for checked into the The Rising Sun, transient quarters one of several at Seafront, a books on Japan little American he wrote. compound on Orville Moody Dewey Boulevard didn’t do badly, not far from either. He got downtown Manila. out of the Army, The transient returned to quarters weren’t the U.S., and lavish: a couple of went on the Quonset huts with professional golf G.I. bunks and no circuit. In 1969 air-conditioning. he advanced There also weren’t through many transients qualifying there at the time– tournaments to just three others, in win the U.S. fact. Two of them Open, one of were enlisted men the four “major” from U.S. Army Japan who had qualified annual golf in some military golf tournaments tournaments–and some say the to play in the Wack-Wack Open, the toughest of them all. At age 50, Philippines’ major annual tournament. he went on the Senior Tour and I only chatted with them once or twice in 1989 won the Senior Open. No and never heard how they did in the one before or since has won both tournament. But I remembered the name Army Japan research unit that was U.S. Open titles. The New York Times of one of them: Orville Moody. compiling a history of the Pacific War. gave him a nice obit: www.nytimes. The other transient was traveling as a On her staff were half a dozen or so com/2008/08/12/sports/golf/12moody. guest of the Defense Department, doing former high-ranking Japanese military html?_r=0 research for a book about the Pacific officers who were writing about the war Toland died in 2004; Moody died in War. He wasn’t a well-known author. as seen from the Japanese side. (I’ve 2008. 4 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS Happy New Year 2015

Reunion From Page 1 everywhere. was finally united. Good news, indeed. • 1999, Bloomfield, MO, 92, S&S Hugs and These 25 wonderful reunions could not Museum/Library handshakes, cries of joy. The thrill was have happened without our devoted, • 2000, Alexandria, VA, 95, Peter Sweers indescribable. We all felt how much we enthusiastic members and their spouses (PSS ‘67-’69) & Bill McNamara (ESS missed each other. Old friends gathered who unselfishly gave their precious time ‘43-’45) around tables and started exchanging news in volunteering to host the yearly event. • 2001 Las Vegas, 145, Kathy (ESS ‘78- about themselves and colleagues. And it Thank all of you so much for your hard ’92) & Bob (PSS ‘57-’59, ESS ‘59-’99) did not take long before the generation work. Wicker gaps were bridged. After all, we all had I want to take this opportunity to list all worked at Stars and Stripes in Tokyo. Pro • 2002, Honolulu, 69, Pat (ESS ‘83-’87) the reunions and hosts so we can continue & John (ESS ‘82-’87) Windrow photographers among us got busy hopping to remember and appreciate their efforts: between the tables. Some of us brought old • 2003, Nashville, 96 ,Walt (ESS ‘69-’76) [Year, location, number of attendees, host] photos and people loved them. The reunion & Doris Trott • 1989, Las Vegas, 56, Casey Ermence was so much fun and invigorating. • 2004, Portland, OR, 63, Barbara (PSS ‘57-’64) & Lyle McBride (PSS We were encouraged to stay healthy and Lambert (ESS ‘82-’95) ‘54-’70) look forward to an even better time the • 2005, Bloomfield, MO, 80, S&S • 1990, Wash. D.C., 85, Mike Mealey following year. Mike Mealey volunteered Museum/Library (PSS ‘63-’64) to host the 1990 reunion in Washington, • 2006, Philadelphia, 76, Mike Mealey • 1991, Chicago, 70, Ralph (PSS ‘51-’53) D.C. We all parted saying, “See you next (PSS ‘63-’64) year!” & Janet Otwell • 2007, San Diego, 83, Floyd (ESS ‘66- • 1992, San Diego, 110, Al Kramer (PSS For many Stripers the reunion became an ’74) & Yolanda Thomas eagerly awaited annual event. Through ‘57-’59,’61-’73) • 2008, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, 37, Joe telephone calls and Christmas cards (no • 1993, San Antonio, 91, Ed Deswysen Tartaro (PSS ‘52-’54) e-mail in those days), members contacted (PSS ‘52-’54) • 2009, Reno-Lake Tahoe, 67, Bob (PSS old friends and urged them to make the • 1994, Las Vegas,164, Ted Adameck rendezvous at the next reunion. We tried (PSS ‘50-’53, ‘56-’57) ‘65-’77) & Eiko (PSS ‘62-’74) Cutts to select reunion sites that would be • 1995, Atlanta, 80, Phil (ESS ‘67-’69) & • 2010, Wash. D.C., 65, Max Lederer convenient for all members -- one year on Ann Dodson (ESS ‘92-’00, CSS ‘00-present) the East Coast, one year on the West Coast, • 2011, Bloomfield, MO, 28, S&S etc. • 1996, Colorado Springs, 103, Bob Tonsing (PSS ‘54-’55), Jack Phinney Museum/Library The 1990 D.C. reunion was held at the (PSS ‘54-’55) & Don Cannalte (PSS • 2012, Las Vegas, 66, Hal (PSS ‘51-’52) National Press Club and was the first ‘54-’55) & Grace Morris attended by Japanese employees of Pacific • 2013, Nashville, 27, Walt (ESS ‘69-’76) Stars and Stripes and their wives. • 1997, San Francisco, 93, Ron (PSS ‘56-’57) & Lorrie Goben & Doris Trott At the 1991 Chicago reunion, Jim Mayo, • 1998, Orlando, 100, Liz Shuck & Ann I also would like to thank Tim (ESS from Bloomfield, Mo., the birthplace of Harris (daughter of Don (PSS ‘56-’59, ‘85-’90) and Janet (ESS ‘86-’90) Boivin our newspaper, was invited to introduce the ESS ‘59-’65) & Liz) in Chicago, Bucky Fox (ESS ‘80-’99) in Stars and Stripes Museum/Library to our members. Over the years, three reunions have been held at the Bloomfield museum. In 1992, five members from the Mid- Pacific edition and two members from the 1945-46 Tokyo office joined us for the San Diego reunion. They were our respected seniors, pioneers and heroes. It was so great to meet them and hear their stories. The 1994 Las Vegas reunion had a record of 164 attendees; 41 members from the European edition joined us; 13 of them had worked for the Pacific paper as well. We were recognized with a letter of congratulation from Vice President Al Gore. Our roster grew. When our publisher became a regular attendee representing the Central office in Washington, the Stars and Stripes family A group shot of reunion goers in Puerto Nueva, Mexico, in 2007. Happy New Year 2015 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS 5 and Kathy Farr (ESS ‘77- ’80) in Indianapolis for their hard work investigating the possibility of a reunion in their area. We are thankful to them and so sorry things did not work out. Special appreciation goes to Kathy and Bob Wicker. They became a strong bridge between East and West by introducing many colleagues from European Stripes. They helped make our yearly events more fun than ever. I would like to thank the loyal members who were able to regularly attend the reunions and also the others who were not The Pacific Stars and Stripes Japanese Employees Association, along with Stripers visiting from the able to be with us. You were always in our U.S., met for a special reunion at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 24, 2004. thoughts. Cancellation of the 2014 Orlando reunion was a disappointment. Barbara and Cal (PSS ‘67-’68, ESS ‘71-’73) Posner worked hard, but the registration forms just were not coming in like the old days. Thank you Cal and Barb for your time and effort. We know how busy you are. As you can see by looking at the reunion list, the number of attendees over the years has steadily declined. The exception was Las Vegas. I guess we have to face reality. We are all getting older. Travel that once was a pleasure now can be a challenge and a chore. And, of course, old friends fade away, erasing reasons for reuniting. The 2009 reunion group poses for a photo after taking a cruise on Lake Tahoe. But let’s not be too quick to write our own obituary. Too many people have worked too hard the last 25 years to let our association Reunion! Reunion! Let’s Do It Again! slip away. Here is a message just in from hurrah, we need to get started on This is my suggestion: Organize mini- enthusiastic ex-Striper Bob Umphress, arrangements. The site would be Las reunions as we did years ago. Heck, even who, along with Red Grandy, is hoping Vegas which has always attracted our best two old friends reuniting is a reunion. We we can organize at least one more attendance. don’t need spacious banquet rooms or big reunion: A downtown hotel would probably offer hospitality suites. Small, intimate get- Dear ex-Stripers: the best rates and numerous restaurants, togethers in taverns, restaurants, backyards, Age and the rigors of air travel have entertainment and shops within easy etc. work fine. caught up with the S&S Association. walking distance for our less-mobile members. If a mini-reunion is planned in advance the Last year’s planned reunion at Orlando date can be announced in our newsletter, was cancelled for lack of participation. We need to know as quickly as possible opening the invitation to anyone who can No one is volunteering to arrange for your answers to the following questions: make it. future reunions. Would you plan to attend? What are the Gomen nasai (forgive me), I have rambled best dates for your attendance It has been suggested we hold a final long enough, but I cannot resist one last get-together to exchange handshakes (Sept. 18-20, 25-27, Oct. 2-4, 9-11, 16- suggestion: and hugs and have those present decide 18, 23-25) ? Let’s have a spring/early summer 2015 whether to try to extend the life of the Contact: mini-reunion at a little place in the association as a paper organization with Mike Mealey: michaelpmealey@aol. mountains called Lazy River Playground. officers, dues and a newsletter. com or Toshi Cooper: tgmcooper@ Are you listening “Red” Grandy (ESS ‘51- If there is sufficient interest in a last comcast.net, (302) 454-6488 ’86)? 6 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS Happy New Year 2015 historical societies will get a share. Biographer Todd DePastino said Mauldin’s work went beyond boosting soldier morale. It offered a glimpse into life on the front lines at a time when Americans were shielded from many of the horrors of war. His later work centered on issues still relevant today - civil rights, privacy and government overreach. Mauldin would absorb everything going on around him, from the look in a politician’s eye to the timbre of someone’s voice. “He was just awake and aware and alert at all times and would filter everything through this prism of his genius that would get expressed in these wonderful cartoons day in and day out,” DePastino said. “It’s a rare genius that can do that.” Mauldin’s family spent years cataloging an estimated 5,000 cartoons. It’s only now that the collection is emerging from storage in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the cartoonist once lived. This May 1, 1944, photo shows Sgt. Bill Mauldin, then an artist for Stars and Stripes, sketching Pvt. Robert L. Bowman of Hogansville, Ga., on the Anzio beachhead in Italy during World War II. Photo Credit: AP The monumental task of deciding which cartoons to auction was unknowingly settled Bill Mauldin’s wartime cartoons hit auction block by Mauldin himself decades ago when he hand-picked some drawings for a gallery — Associated Press cartoons. “He drew them there - in the show. middle of it.” Two dozen original editorial cartoons “They were already separate from the rest. created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist “They knew that this guy was three And they’re really good,” Nat Mauldin said. and World War II veteran Bill Mauldin are foxholes over,” the younger Mauldin on the auction block. said of his father’s fellow soldiers. “It’s incredible what he did for the morale of the The drawings are part of a collection of infantrymen in the war. It was an enormous cartoons Maudlin had stashed away in contribution.” boxes and file cabinets over a decades- long career that started on the battlefield In 1945, Mauldin won his first of two and included stints at the Chicago Sun- Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished service as a Times and other American newspapers and cartoonist. magazines. After a long career, Mauldin died in 2003 in Mauldin is credited with using edgy humor a California nursing home. He was 81. and his Willie and Joe characters, fictional An original Willie and Joe cartoon from GIs who slogged their way through Italy 1951 will be among those sold as part of a and other parts of Europe, to lift the spirits major comic art auction in Beverly Hills, of infantrymen by poking fun at officers California. Another offering from 1974 and idealistic enlisted men who had yet to depicts former President Richard Nixon experience battle. backed into a corner. A native New Mexican, Mauldin enlisted Heritage Auctions is offering the items on in the Army in 1940 and spent his share behalf of the estate. The auction opened of time in muddy foxholes, being shot at Saturday and continues through Monday. day and night. There were two options: Ten more cartoons will be auctioned early Go crazy or relieve the tension with some This Mauldin cartoon, done for the Chicago Sun- next year in New York. Mauldin’s family Times and Field Enterprises in 1962, questions sarcasm. plans to donate much of the remaining U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia years before “That was the thing about Dad. He didn’t collection to the Library of Congress - the big buildup of American troops in Vietnam. It is one of the original Mauldin drawings offered draw these from some office in New York,” where most of his World War II cartoons by his family in an auction this weekend by his son, Nat Mauldin, said of the wartime are already housed. Other museums and Heritage Auctions. Photo Credit: AP Happy New Year 2015 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS 7 The family said the goal is to bring the News from the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library historic cartoons out of storage so they can he 6th Corps Living History be seen by others and used for research. who served in the European Theater Group of St. Louis presented during WW II. The fall afternoon was As for how much money the cartoons might Welcome Home Stars and Stripes ideal for the outdoor performance of the bring, experts have no idea. Never before RemembersT WW II & Korean at the fifty-five member Bloomfield high school has the work of Mauldin, one of the 20th- Stars and Stripes Museum/Library on choir, under the direction of Teri Rose. century’s pre-eminent editorial cartoonists, October 17 and 18. On Friday over 250 The annual Stars and Stripes Car Show been auctioned. students from three area schools viewed was held on Saturday, October 11, the the campsites and listened to uniformed week prior to the re-enactment. Several Editor’s note: This article was written in re-enactors explain equipment used by people entered their cars despite a rather November of 2014, a few days before the American, British, and German soldiers. rainy day and many sponsors make the auction. No word yet on the outcome of The students also visited the museum to event worthwhile financially. see the new time-line exhibits of Stars the sale. Mary Thorn, activities coordinator of and Stripes newspapers. They used the Chapter 18086, chose Stars and Stripes papers on display to answer questions Museum/Library as the organization to about WW II and Korea. receive a fundraising matching grant of Around 300 took part in the event on up to $2,500 from Modern Woodmen Saturday. In addition to the WWII of America. The proceeds from the Car campsites and demonstrations and the Show and the Re-enactment will enable Korean War display, Holocaust survivor the museum to receive the full amount Ben Fainer, author of Silent for Sixty of the grant. The funds will be used for a Years drew capacity crowds for both much-needed copy machine. of his appearances. Lou Baczewski Visit the Stars and Stripes Museum on accompanied Mr. Fainer and discussed Facebook, or on the web at: the Veterans Honor Flights and his book, Louch the Book, about his grandfather www.starsandstripesmuseumlibrary.org.

This 1951 cartoon by Bill Mauldin shows his soldier characters, Willie and Joe, ‘taking advantage of a lull in the action by cooking up a little something special.’ Photo Credit: AP

A 1972 cartoon shows President Nixon backed into a corner during the unfolding Watergate scandal. Photo Credit: AP Photos from the Stars and Stripes Museum & Library Facebook page. 8 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS Happy New Year 2015

Photographer Phil Stern in his Hollywood studio with a cutout of his photograph of on March 19, 1989. Photo Credit: LA Times. To watch “A coversation with Phil Stern,” by the LA Times, visit www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/ la-me-phil-stern-20141215-story.html. Nonetheless, Phil grew passionate about photography: “I would see things and critique the photos, some excellent and some not so excellent . . . So I decided I was going to learn how to do this and do it properly - that’s kind of youthful arrogance.” Occasionally, customers would assign the budding photographer to shoot product promo shots, which he’d post in the shop. A Police Gazette editor spied Phil’s pictures and engaged the teen-ager for various jobs: “I was paid $2.50 for each picture taken.” Yet another regular, Daniel Gilmore, liked Phil’s photos enough to hire him full-time to shoot for a new national magazine he was ‘Photographer to the stars,’ Phil Stern, dies at 95 launching, titled Friday. Stern’s first “hit the road” assignment was accompanying — By Walter Trott (ESS ‘69-’76) “Cobra Woman.” Following that task, writer Ruth McKinney (author of “My oted Hollywoood photographer Brooks abruptly quit the studio to join the Sister Eileen”) to Harlan County, Kentucky, Phil Stern died Dec. 13, in a Los Marine Corps in 1943. for a feature on the plight of coalminers and Angeles hospital, at age 95. He was Initially a scenarist, Brooks contributed their families. “So at 19, I was now in the theN still photographer on the set of “$,” a such screen stories as Ernest Hemingway’s magazine world,” mused Stern. “That was movie-in-production in Hamburg, Germany, “The Killers” (for which Horwits was just fate.” at our first meeting in early 1971. publicist), Jules Dassin’s “Brute Force,” and Fate stepped in again when Friday sent Phil European Stars and Stripes assigned me John Huston’s “Key Largo” with Bogey & to Hollywood, covering labor movement to enlighten America’s overseas readers Bacall. Brooks’ novel “The Brick Foxhole” in the film capital: “I was paid $60 a week about the Hollywood heist flick, written was brought to the screen as “Crossfire” and expenses, which I thought was good. and directed by Richard Brooks. The crusty in 1947, dealing with anti-Semitism and We had reported on East Coast labor stories, Philadelphia native had box office hotties starring three Roberts - Young, Mitchum which were really socially-oriented pieces. Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty top-billed, and Ryan - earning Brooks an Oscar In those years, they called it Progressive, but flanked by veterans Scott Brady, Robert nomination. today they call it the Left Wing.” Webber and “Goldfinger” himself, Gert Producing “$” was former UCLA football Just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Frobe. hero Mike Frankovich, who hired Horwits Friday folded, and Gilmore paid him two Brooks, known for such classics as earlier as his chief studio publicist, while weeks’ severance pay: “There I was in Los “Blackboard Jungle,” “Lord Jim,” “Cat On running Columbia Pictures. Frankovich was Angeles, suddenly looking for work. I called a Hot Tin Roof,” “Elmer Gantry” and “In also keen on Stern’s photographic ability, up prospective employers, one of whom was Cold Blood,” used a trusted crew, including admiring his work on John Wayne’s “El the bureau chief for Life magazine.” Turned assistant director Tom Shaw, publicist Al Dorado,” “The Alamo” and “True Grit,” as out, he followed Stern’s Friday work, so Horwits, and photo-journalist Stern. well as such successes as “Guys and Dolls,” he was hired. Phil would also freelance for Stern and I hit it off right away, as we had “Some Like It Hot” and “Judgment At other prestigious publications like Collier’s, in common both being former combat Nuremberg.” Saturday Evening Post, Look and movie correspondents, as well as his having Although born in the City of Brotherly fan magazine Photoplay, augmenting his been a Stars and Stripes staffer. I found it Love, Phil was mainly raised in New York income. interesting that Stern, Horwits and Brooks City: “That was all in the days of the very As World War II raged abroad, Stern all originally hailed from Philadelphia. The acute Depression.” At 16, he worked after suddenly found himself serving in Uncle latter two covered sports on Philadelphia school in a photo and art studio, “I was Sam’s military. Trained as an Army Ranger, dailies and met again in Hollywood. hired as an all-around gadabout,” getting an he was assigned to a mission fighting Field Horwits was Universal Pictures publicity education in cleaning darkrooms, mixing Marshal Rommel’s tank troops in North chief when Brooks co-wrote the exotic chemicals and loading film-plates for bulky Africa. Maria Montez sand-and-sex screenplay cameras. During the Tunisian Campaign, Phil Happy New Year 2015 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS 9 suffered wounds, which earned him a the odd couple.” first Purple Heart. He was assigned to Stern, ever gruff but affable, Stripes, and later was awarded a second was very much a realist, Purple Heart for further injury, prior to his pooh-poohing most of those discharge. buddy-buddy references Phil’s Ranger time resulted in a later to his association with the assignment on the set of William Wellman’s movie elite: “Someone who “Darby’s Rangers,” based on ex-Ranger knows the scene might say I James Alteri’s novel “The Spearheaders.” was part of the gang, in that James Garner starred as Col. William O. I was acceptable to them, but Darby, who ran the Ranger force. that’s the extent of it. I was not on their A-list, but from As Stern discerned, “It was obviously time-to-time, I’d be invited. Hollywood material, and Darby had been a Technically, I was one of them handsome guy . . . He got two Purple Hearts for an hour-and-a-half.” and became a Brigadier General.” Regarding Phil’s work as In addition to being still photographer, combat correspondent during Stern served as technical advisor and played World War II, and specifically a cameo in the flick: “I’m there playing the invasion of Sicily, fellow myself, taking pictures when the soldiers Stars and Stripes reporter received their medals. That was all for one Herb Mitgang wrote, “His film. It was a piece of crap, as a movie, but pictures of the invasion and it made money.” its aftermath, remain the most Other war movies he worked on included outstanding documents in the Amid a proper setting, Hollywood filmaker Richard Brooks Gregory Peck’s “Pork Chop Hill” and Audie annals of combat photography in discusses his latest movie, “Dollars,” with reports in Hamburg. Murphy’s semi-biographical “To Hell And any war, before or since.” Photo Credit: Phil Stern/Stars and Stripes (1972) Back.” He also shot album cover art for Some of his work was first fabled Hollywood. We even attended the such music stars as Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar documented in a book “Phil Stern’s world premiere in Hamburg. Peterson, Louis Armstrong and a pair of Hollywood: Photographs 1940-1979” During our chat in Bloomfield, 86-year-old Franks - Zappa and Sinatra. Old Blue Eyes (Knopf Publishers, 1993), boasting 85 Phil was feeling a bit under the weather even got him named official photographer photos; and later a 256-page coffee-table and quipped, he was relying on “my own for the 1961 Inaugural of President John F. edition, “Phil Stern: A Life’s Work” Kennedy. (Powerhouse Books, New York, 2006). airline” - an oxygen-breathing respirator - prompted by a lung ailment. He also Nicknamed “Snapdragon,” Stern was on a Phil and I chatted about that latter first-name basis with the likes of Sinatra, publication during the ’06 Stars and Stripes confided he was donating his slides, Spencer Tracy, , Humphrey Association Reunion at the Stripes Museum pictures, negatives and transparencies Bogart, James Dean, and in Bloomfield, also attended by CBS 60 of players and scenes documented, to The Duke (John Wayne) himself. He and Minutes’ Andy Rooney, yet another iconic the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Wayne even drank together, and usually World War II Striper. Sciences. wound up arguing politics, as they were Thanks to Stern, Horwits and Brooks, I Stern was wed to former Powers’ model poles apart in their beliefs: “We were indeed played a part in their Rose Mae Lindou, who preceded him in crime caper “$,” as a death, as did daughter Lata and son Philip. reporter (what else, Survivors include sons Peter and Tom Stern, calling in a news story on the robbery of and eight grandchildren. United World Bank). A resident of the Veterans Home of West Maybe I was a jinx, Los Angeles, Phil reportedly had been for the film failed to hospitalized several weeks prior to his take off either at the passing. Journalist Patricia Bosworth, who box office or with collaborated with Stern on his book “A the critics. But it was Life’s Work,” probably best summed up great fun mixing it up with those former his legend, writing in part, “Phil helped to Philadelphia natives, define the movie capital during its Golden Phil Stern (right) and Walter Trott (left) have a chat during the 2006 Stars and Stripes Association Reunion at the Stars and Stripes Musesm and and marveling at how Age. He brought America’s celebrity culture Library in Bloomfield, Missouri. far they’d made it in into focus, and into our homes.” 10 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS Happy New Year 2015 Baird: Stars and Stripes photographer, author dies In 2008, Jack wrote and published a book Teresa (Mike) Milewski and their children titled “Combat Combo Marine”, in which Karie and Doug, Batavia, IL; Melinda he closely chronicled combat operations “Lindy” Westcott and her daughter Rachel, in Vietnam and throughout his military Fort Collins, CO; Douglas (Kimberly) and experience. After his career ended, Jack their daughter Helena, N. Las Vegas, NV; accepted a position with the Postal Service and his ex-wife, Juanita. Jack is preceded in in Des Moines while continuing his own death by his parents; Betty, the mother of his on-going business in the printing and children; and two sisters, Nancy and Maxine. advertising field. He was also a member of Funeral service were held at Merle Hay AMVETS Post 2, ZA-GA-ZIG Shriners, and Funeral Home, Des Moines, Iowa on Veterans of Foreign Wars. October 13, 2014. In lieu of flowers, Jack is survived by his five children: Brenda, memorial contributions may be made to the San Diego, CA; Steven, Fort Collins, CO; Za-Ga-Zig Shrine.

ohn “Jack” K. Baird, 80, of Des Moines, Iowa passed away on Friday, October 3, 2014. Jack was born April 6, 1934 Jin Peoria, Illinois to Thornton and Gladys Baird. Jack forged his parents’ signature at the young age of fifteen and enlisted in the Marines. He is a veteran of the Korean War, served two tours of duty in Vietnam, and served multiple deployments to the Philippines, Okinawa and Thailand. With a career spanning twenty two years, Jack served in Japan, Taiwan and several stateside assignments with his family accompanying Soldiers compare beards during Operation Hawthorne in 1966. him. During his Vietnam tours he was a Photo credit: Jack Baird/Stars and Stripes. Combat Correspondent with the Pacific Stars and Stripes Newspaper and also had a number of his war pictures featured in Life Magazine. Jack retired as a Master Gunnery Sergeant and received many medals for his service including the Joint Service Commendation Medal.

Capt. William Carpenter, right, commander of the 101st Airborne Division’s C Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Regiment, talks about his company’s recent close call in escaping from near-encirclement by North Vietnamese forces during Operation Hawthorne in 1966. The crowd at Chu Lai shows its obvious appreciation for Ann-Margret. Photo credit: Jack Baird/Stars and Stripes. Photo credit: Jack Baird/Stars and Stripes. Happy New Year 2015 STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS 11 From deep within the vault:

The European Stars and Stripes Press Club in Griesheim (Darmstadt), Germany. Photo credit: The Stars and Stripes Association Facebook Page, courtesy of Paul Abitbale.

Dave Feldman (ESS ‘61-’74) wrote this in a fit of pique European Stars and Stripes circa 1988-89. while at European Stripes way back in 1963. He probably Photo credit: The Stars and Stripes Association Facebook Page. didn’t ever turn it in to the canteen manager. Just getting it off his chest was enough. Next Up, Lettuce Roulette To: Food Manager, Press Club Canteen Dear Sir, While you were out to lunch downtown, I was served the salad that now decorates your desk. The small black object nearest you, on the plate, is an insect of some sort. I object strenuously, on the following grounds: (1) The insect has not been properly identified as to type and

species, number and classification of germs it is carrying, nor European Stars and Stripes Editorial staffers in Pfungstadt, Germany. Photo its advanced capabilities as a plague spreader. credit: The Stars and Stripes Association Facebook Page. (2) Obviously, the insect has friends, none of whom I perceived. It is my hope that they are in other salads, rather than my interior. (3) The insect and I were not properly introduced. I realize that the kitchen help cannot take the time to wash ALL heads of lettuce. Therefore, it is my recommendation that, if they can wash every third head, they do so. Then you might hold a lottery of sorts, so that the lettuce still carrying moving friends can be distributed by chance. If possible, though, leave me out of this next game of lettuce roulette. I lost this time. Regretfully submitted, Dave Feldman Darryl Love (USAF) and Arturo Guajardo (Army) of the Production Dept. burning up the keyboards inputting copy for eventual typesetting (1976). A dues-paying member Photo credit: The Stars and Stripes Association Facebook Page, courtesy of Paul Abitbale. Membership Renewal/Change of Address FormHappy New Year 2015

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