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Foster Hailey
FOSTER HAILEY (August 13, 1890 - August 13, 1966) grew up in Illinois the son of a Methodist Episcopal minister. When his father lost his voice and gave up the ministry to run a weekly, the Barry R...ver maisFOSTER HAILEY (August 13, 1890 - August 13, 1966) grew up in Illinois the son of a Methodist Episcopal minister. When his father lost his voice and gave up the ministry to run a weekly, the Barry Record, the boy, then ten years old, had his first newspaper job.
He was ill with rheumatic fever when the United States declared war in 1917, but after working on a farm that summer, he ran away from home in November and enlisted in the Navy as apprentice seaman. He made thirteen round trips to France on the U.S.S. Mongolia, Navy transport, and was discharged in August 1919, as a Quartermaster 2nd Class.
In 1924, Foster Hailey was graduated from the University of Missouri, Bachelor of Journalism. After graduation he made a trip to South America on a coffee boat as an able-bodied seaman and returned to New Orleans in November to work on the Item and its morning edition, the Tribune, until 1926.
A year and a half on the desk of the Des Moines Tribune led to New York in the fall of 1927, and ten years with the AP on news and sports and a year as Bureau Chief in Indianapolis. He joined the New York Times in February 1937 as a reporter. For several months, in the early stages of the war, he wrote the International Situation summary on Page 1. He left New York on the night of December 7, 1941 and went to serve in the Pacific, in all combat areas except the Philippines and New Guinea, mostly afloat with the Navy.
Foster Hailey passed away in 1966 and is interred at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.ver menos