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    Recollections: An Artist and Writer Recalls Ten Unusual and Totally Unique Events in His Life
    Recollections: An Artist and Writer Recalls Ten Unusual and Totally Unique Events in His Life
    Recollections: An Artist and Writer Recalls Ten Unusual and Totally Unique Events in His Life
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    Recollections: An Artist and Writer Recalls Ten Unusual and Totally Unique Events in His Life

    By Harry C. Doolittle

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    In this memoir, author Harry C. Doolittle offers his recollections and unique stories of Howdy Doody and Kukla, Fran and Olliepioneers in the TV entertainment universeand Charlton Heston, iconic movie star, just to name a few.

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    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 15, 2013
    ISBN9781475972030
    Recollections: An Artist and Writer Recalls Ten Unusual and Totally Unique Events in His Life
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    Harry C. Doolittle

    Harry C. Doolittle was born September 17, 1923 in Chicago. He grew up in Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, and graduated from Northwestern University. Doolittle is a self-taught artist who began painting in 1969 while a copywriter/creative director at some of America’s leading advertising agencies. This is Doolittle’s first book.

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      Recollections - Harry C. Doolittle

      Copyright © 2013 by Harry C. Doolittle

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7204-7 (sc)

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      Contents

      Recollection #1. Recruitment

      Recollection #2. Written On Condition of Anonymity

      Recollection #3. Sharks Galore

      Recollection #4. Chicago’s City News Bureau

      Recollection #5. Charlton Heston

      Recollection #6. Howdy Doody

      Recollection #7. Tough Times

      Recollection #8. Workplace Amenity?

      Recollection #9. Kukla, Fran & Ollie

      Recollection #10. A Happy Landing

      Author’s Preface

      I should have entitled this book, Remembrance of Things Past, but alas, a much greater writer than I beat me to it. His name was Marcel Proust. And so, Recollections will have to do. And now to begin as my memory allows it…

      Recruitment

      Recollection #1:

      Fall of 1943, World War II was at full swing, and I was twenty-years old. For the past two years I had been a U.S. Marine Corp reservist while at the same time attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. At that time, a call to active duty did not mean that I nor my fellow reservists, would have to fight. Instead, we were to be awarded the title, Private First Class, along with a marine corps uniform, and sent to reside at a marine barracks. In my case, barracks meant an N.U. fraternity house.

      The plan was to no longer have any of us remain as just a marine grunt (marine slang for privates and non-coms). Instead, the plan was for us, as college students, to become marine officers. This meant we marines were supposed to stay in college until we were needed, and then, when called, go to the officer’s training school at Quantico, Virginia. There we were to be graduated as second lieutenants. How long was it before I would have to go? I figured a year; meanwhile as the war was raging worldwide the other marine reservists and I were supposed to remain in school. The reason for the delay, according to scuttle-butt (rumors) was that the marines already had a surfeit of officers and didn’t need any more.

      And so one day the time came when two dozen or so of my newly recruited fellow marines and I lined up in civilian clothes outside our barracks: in this case a fraternity house at the university. This was in early September 1943. We stood there, shoulder pressed against shoulder, wearing mostly T-shirts and jeans (our marine uniforms were due to arrive days later). And on the ground next to each marine was his suitcase containing his other clothes and personal effects.

      Standing in front of this lineup were two men in uniform. The one in the background was a marine captain, and the other, in front of him and nearest to us, was a platoon sergeant. He was in charge with the captain being there as an observer only. His cap set at exactly the correct angle and his brown tie tucked inside his khaki shirt between the second and third button as marine regulations required. His shirt sleeves and blue pants had a red strip down each side (worn only by noncoms and officers), had been ironed razor sharp and the shine on his shoes blinded the eye.

      So now the sergeant, let’s call him Sergeant Lee, standing in

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