![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He said anybody who had gone through that deserved a job, so he hired me as an obit writer.” I told him I had been a ball turret gunner. “I introduced myself and told him about my situation,” Diehl told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002. He got the job after staking out the newspaper lobby and waiting for editor Ralph McGill to walk by. On a school field trip in 1937, he witnessed the explosion of the Hindenburg, then the world’s largest aircraft.Īfter the war, he graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in creative writing and history and in 1949 moved to Atlanta, where he joined the staff of the Atlanta Constitution. Even without World War II, Diehl’s life was more eventful than most.Īccording to family lore, Mae West was once his baby-sitter, before she became a Hollywood sex symbol. ![]()
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