Larry Collins Larry Collins was born in West Hartford, Conn on Sept 14 1929,
educated at the Loomis Chaffee Institute in Windsor, Conn and graduated with
the Class of 1951 from Yale University. Upon graduation he joined the
Advertising Department of Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati Ohio. Shortly
thereafter he was conscripted into the United States Army, He served at the
Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen Md, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and in
April 1954 was assigned to the Public Affairs Office of SHAPE, Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the military arm of NATO, the North
Atylantic Treaty Upon his discharge in April 1955 he returned to Proctor and Gamble where in December 1955 he was named a Product Manager in the company's newly formed Food Products Division. However, he decded a career in journalism would eventually prove more satisfying then one in advertising, left the company and joined the Paris Bureau of the United Press in January 1956. In February 1957 he was named News Editor of the agency's Rome
Bureau and in November of that year was assigned to Beirut as Middle Eastern
Correspondent with On arrival he resumed his friendship with Dominique Lapierre
whom he had met |
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