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<em>Henry T. Henry </em>was born 2 January 1910 at Mineola, Texas. The family moved from Mineola to Palestine, Texas, and it was there at Palestine High School that the divers talents for which he became known at West Point and that later marked his career as a journalist were first recognized. He was president of Public Speaking Group, Latin Club, Boys Debating Team, and Dramatic Club, member of the Forensic and Hi-Y Clubs; player of violin in school orchestra, and yell leader; on the staff of the school newspaper and business manager of school annual. He was selected as Most Representative Student of the Class of 1927. In addition to these school activities, he contributed articles to each of the town’s two daily newspapers.</div>
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After Palestine High School, two years were spent at the University of Texas before being appointed to West Point in 1929.</div>
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At West Point, Hank is recalled for his rich bass voice as he acted as soloist for the Cadet Choir in chapel and in concert. Also, he is recalled for his labors with the <em>Pointer</em>, of which he became managing editor. More intimately, memories of Hank recall the many lengthy Saturday night bridge games in which he featured, and the everyday running discussion and debate between him and his roommate, the to-be-distinguished diplomat and writer, Charles Thayer.</div>
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Upon graduation, the appeal of a career in journalism proved to be greater than that of the profession of arms, and during graduation leave Henry resigned to become associated in the ownership of his hometown newspaper, the <em>Palestine Press</em>. Shortly afterwards, in early 1934, he left Palestine for a position with the <em>Associated Press</em> in their New York office.</div>
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In 1938 he was transferred to the AP’s Paris bureau and for the next eight years served as a foreign correspondent and as a war correspondent. He first used the byline of H. Taylor Henry but later became simply Taylor Henry. He covered, journalistically, almost all of the major events of Europe in that momentous period.</div>
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Accredited to the French Army in 1940, he fell back with them from the Maginot line to Paris and wrote some of the more vivid newspaper accounts of this episode in history. He then accompanied the French government to Vichy and became the AP bureau chief there.</div>
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When the Vichy government came completely under authority of the Germans he was interned at Baden-Baden along with the rest of the Allied diplomatic and newspaper community. From there he was repatriated with the first voyage of the Gripsholm.</div>
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He continued with AP and served at a variety of posts, including Washington, London, Cairo and Johannesburg, until 1946, when he resigned.</div>
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Hank served as a field representative with a management consultant firm for a number of years but his ambition always was to become owner, publisher and editor of his own weekly newspaper. It was while working towards this objective that he became editor of the <em>Potomac News</em> in Dumfries, Virginia. His untimely death occurred as the result of an accident while he was returning his newspapers by truck from the press where they had been printed.</div>
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In 1934, in New York City, Hank married, and in 1944 the marriage terminated in divorce by mutual consent. A son, Justin, was born of the union and survives.</div>
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<em>—Two Classmates</em></div>