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Blue Book v082 n01 [1945-11], 1945
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1Who's Who in this Issue
3Fairfax Downey
5FAIRFAX DOWNEY comes from an old Army family—was born in Salt Lake City in 1893, the son of Brigadier General George Downey, who was himself the son of an Army officer. Fairfax Downey graduated from Yale in 1916 and went into newspaper work, first on the Kansas City Star and then on the New York Herald Tribune and New York Sun. He won his commission as a Captain in the Field Artillery in 1918, and received a Silver Star citation for his part in the Belleau Wood action. He has been back in the service in this war as a Major in the AUS since 1942, but has recently returned from overseas duty and is now back on the job as a writing-man. "Army Mule," a novel of General Crooks' famous campaign against the Apaches begins on page 106. Among his other books are "Young Enough to Know Better," "The Grande Turke," "Portrait of an Era," "Disaster Fighters" and "Indian Fighting Army."
7Lawrence Watkin
9YOU see him here in his uniform as an author, but since 1942 he has been in service as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. He taught at Washington & Lee University for a number of years. His first novel "On Borrowed Times" was very successfully dramatized by Paul Osborn and was later filmed. "Geese in the Forum" appeared in 1940. His last novel was called "The Gentleman from England" and he has also written and published several children's books. Oh, yes! He was born in Camden, N. Y., in 1901, was graduated from Harvard in 1925, is married and the father of three children.
11S/Sgt. Stanley Zuckerberg
13HE is twenty-six years old, a native of Long Beach, L. I. A scholarship from the local high school, enabled him to enter Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., and started him on his career as an artist.
15Blue Book gave him his first professional job as an illustrator, but before the war he did illustrating for a number of other magazines.
17As Photo-Interpreter for the 462nd Bomb Group, of the 58th Wing of the 20th Air Force, he has journeyed over most of Asia.
19He has drawn the target charts for bombings of the Japanese homeland by the B-29's; and the insignia which he designed is used on all B-29's of the 462nd Bomb Group.
21He also was among those to fly over Tokyo Bay on the day of the signing of the surrender papers.
23While in India, he illustrated a four-page spread for Cosmopolitan Magazine, titled "Rush Order"—authored by Col. Kalberer, the Group Commander.
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