JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

January 20, 2010

Pfc John A. Keel

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[John was profiled in The Stars and Stripes on Jan.11, 1953.  There are some interesting details on his early career:]

Pfc John A. Keel was born in Hornell, New York, in 1930, but claims Perry, New York, as his hometown.  He was country-cured on a farm five miles outside of Perry and gained the latter part of his education by riding a bicycle to the local high school.  At 14 he launched a weekly newspaper in the school and, shortly afterwards, started writing a regular column for the local paper, the Perry Herald.  The column was titled Scraping the Keel and featured comments on everything from atomic energy to an orphan cat which had the misfortune of getting lost in the village sewer system.  At 15 he sold his first story to the late Hobo News, and other sales to other magazines and papers followed.  At 17 he hitch-hiked 400 miles to New York City.  He arrived with 75c in his pocket and no friends.  Setting up shop in famed Greenwich Village, he soon became editor of a poetry magazine and chairman of the Greenwich Village Poetry Forum.  In 1949, the New York World-Telegram called him “Teen-Ager of the Week,” resulting in a number of radio and TV appearances.  His poems and essays have appeared in over 80 magazines.  His stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications from Grit — the Family Newspaper — to the New Yorker.  At the time of his induction into the Army in 1951 he was writing continuity for comic books such as Capt Marvel, Superman, and GI Joe Comics.  He was assigned to the American Forces Network in October 1951 and has written and produced such programs as “The Past on Parade,” “Command Conference of the Air,” “Take a Trip,” “Take Ten,” and comanaged AFN’s Halloween broadcast Oct. 31, 1952, from Frankenstein Castle.  He is due for discharge in May 1953 and expects to return to N.Y.

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