Background
George Weller was born on July 13, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts.
1944
George Weller
Cambridge, MA, United States
George Weller studied at Harvard University.
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
George Weller studied at the University of Vienna.
George Weller in Rome in the 1950s.
Cambridge, MA, United States
George Weller studied at Harvard University.
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
George Weller studied at the University of Vienna.
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1933
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1936
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1943
(In The Story of the Paratroops George Weller tells how th...)
In The Story of the Paratroops George Weller tells how the miraculous training of the first "infantry of the clouds" was accomplished.
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1958
George Weller was born on July 13, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts.
George Weller completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard University in 1929. He also did additional graduate study at the University of Vienna in 1930, where he studied acting as the only American member of Max Reinhardt's theater company.
George Weller's first journalism job was with the New York Times, where he was a correspondent in Greece and the Balkans in the early 1930s. From 1937 to 1940, he was director of the Homeland Foundation in New York City before returning to journalism as part of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service. Weller covered the war in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific as one of the war's mighty correspondents.
During World War II, George Weller became famous for reporting on the first undersea surgery, which happened on the submarine Seadragon when, on September 11, 1942, a crew member suffering from appendicitis was operated on by untrained comrades guided only by a medical manual. The surgery was a success. Weller also was present at several other important stories of World War II. He witnessed the 1941 fall of Saigon and the nuclear aftermath at Nagasaki.
After the war, Weller returned to the United States briefly on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University before heading back to Europe. He mostly reported from Rome during his last years with the Daily News. Weller retired in 1975. Additionally, he was a writer. George Weller was the author of several historical books, including Singapore Is Silent and Story of Submarines, and the novels Not to Eat, Not for Love, Clutch and Differential, and The Crack in the Column. His last published work was Walking Time.
George Weller was best known as a journalist. For his work at the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. In 1947 Weller became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. His series of stories about Turkey earned him a George Polk Memorial Award in 1955. Moreover, George Weller was a holder of Italy's Premio Internazionale di Giornalismo.
(In The Story of the Paratroops George Weller tells how th...)
1958
George Weller was married twice. He married Katherine Deupree in 1932 and divorced in 1944. They had a daughter, Ann Weller. In 1948 Weller married reporter Charlotte Ebener, who passed away in 1990. George Weller also had a son, Anthony Weller, with Gladys Lasky Weller, with whom he had a relationship for more than thirty years.
Katherine Deupree was George Weller's first wife. They divorced in 1944.
Charlotte Ebener was George Weller's second wife. She died in 1990.
Anthony Weller is currently the author of four novels: The Garden of the Peacocks, The Polish Lover, The Siege of Salt Cove, and The Land of Later On, and a travel memoir of India and Pakistan, Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road. He also edited two collections of his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II reporting, First into Nagasaki and Weller's War. For many years he was highly-regarded jazz and classical guitarist.
