They were married in 1945 and had three children together. After contracting malaria, he was sent to recuperate in San Francisco, where he fell in love with Betty Beck, a sergeant in the Women’s Reserves. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and fought at Guadalcanal and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. He joined the Marines a month after the Dec. He took some classes at Baltimore City College from 1938 to 1941 but recalled during a return visit decades later that he was its “most unnoteworthy student.” But in high school he failed English three times and never graduated. He found solace in books and at age 6 wrote an operetta inspired by the death of his dog. He had a poor relationship with his father, a left-leaning, Polish Jewish immigrant who rarely had a word of praise for his son.
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