Career
"Galley Slave" (1965) is an anthology of his columns including writings on his many visits to Ireland. He played professional football for Buffalo and Philadelphia and had a tryout to play catcher for the New York Yankees before going to Europe during World War I where he served with the French Ambulance Corps before the United States entered the war. During the years of World World War II, he was a war correspondent, covering the London Blitz, the Normandy invasion, and the liberation of Paris.
After Doctorate-Day, he went on to cover the exploits of the 4th Armored Division.
After the war, he covered the 1958 Lebanon crisis and wrote a popular series on Ireland. During his college years, he was a football star at Lafayette College, afterwards studying portraiture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Known throughout his life as "Duke", he died at the age of 69.