Gypsy Jan
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Just found this entry in Wikipedia about my father, Richard G. Hubler:
"Hubler attended Wyoming Seminary then graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934. Hubler began writing for many magazines. In 1941 he wrote his first
biography Lou Gehrig the Iron Horse of Baseball followed by I Flew for China in 1942; a biography of Royal Leonard, Chiang Kai-Shek's personal pilot.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December 1942. He served for three years in the Corps
obtaining the rank of Captain. He wrote many articles for the Marine Corps Gazette one of which criticised the American military's awarding of
decorations Winning Medals and Alienating People.[2] Hubler also published a World War II history of Marine Aviation Flying Leathernecks: The Complete
History of Marine Corps Aviation 1941-1944 in 1944.
After the war, Hubler used his Marine experience as inspiration for his first novel published in 1946 I've Got Mine that was filmed as Beachhead in
1954. It was republished as Walk Into Hell in 1963. Hubler became a Hollywood Scriptwriter with a screenplay based on Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of
Kumaon. This led him to be signed as a scriptwriter for Belsam Productions to write a trio of films for Tom Conway.
In addition to Reagan's autobiography, he also wrote SAC: The Strategic Air Command (1958), St. Louis Woman with Helen Traubel (1959), Big Eight: A
Biography of an Airplane (1960) Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight (1961) and The Cole Porter Story as told to Richard G. Hubler (1965).
In February 1954 he had a piece entitled Dogs Are Dumb published in Coronet magazine, relating the lack of intelligence in dogs. He quickly became
deluged by irate dog-owners' correspondence and can be heard making an apologetic appearance on the 19th May 1954 edition of You Bet Your Life
defending his opinion and stating that he owned a dog himself.
Hubler was commissioned by Walt Disney Productions and the Disney family to prepare a biography of Walt Disney shortly after Disney's death, which he
researched and wrote during 1967-1968. Upon submission he was paid a contractual penalty and the manuscript never saw print. "No comments, no reasons,
no nothing at all", Hubler stated to animation historian Michael Barrier as to why it remained unpublished.[3] Animation historian Wade Sampson notes
when Bob Thomas some years later was engaged to write what became Walt Disney: An American Original, Disney executives explained that "two other
writers had tried their hand at writing the official biography but both of the attempts had proven unsatisfactory."
A number of the interviews Hubler conducted on Disney have been published in the book series Walt's People edited by Dider Ghez.
Hubler's papers are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. This includes the manuscript of the unpublished Disney
biography and much material from its preparation. Many of the interview transcripts are also held by the Disney Archives."
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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vgabndo
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He sounds like a man to be proud of.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Very impressive!
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Gypsy Jan
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We Talked About Baja
Sadly, our plan to visit didn't happen.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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docsmom
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Very nice. This holiday we give thanks to those we can celebrate with as well as (maybe more importantly) those we have celebrated with throughout
our lives who are no longer with us.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
He wrote many articles for the Marine Corps Gazette one of which criticised the American military's awarding of decorations Winning Medals
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I'll bet that one got some criticism given the publication he chose to write for. 
sidenote: Military medals aren't won. It's not a competition.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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bajaguy
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Richard G. Hubler
Plenty of his books available on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
Oh, SNAP!!!! try this:
http://tinyurl.com/mntxeee
[Edited on 11-29-2013 by bajaguy]
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