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Richard Connell
Richard Connell was born in on October 17th, 1893 in Poughkeepsie, New York. His father was a newspaper reporter who later became a congressman.
Following in his father's footsteps, Connell began working as a reporter as a young man at the Poughkeepsie News-Press where his father had worked at one time.
Connell began attending Georgetown University but took a year off in 1910 to work for his father as a secretary after the older man won his seat in Congress.
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Two years later in 1912, Connell's father died suddenly. Richard returned to college but began a course at Harvard University instead of Georgetown. At Harvard, Connell was the editor of The Harvard Crimson and The Harvard Lampoon.
In 1915, Connell graduated from Harvard and began working as a journalist, full-time.
Shortly afterward, however, the United States entered World War I and Connell enlisted in the army and served with the 27th New York division. He spent a year in France and ended up editing the cam