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Former Stars and Stripes journalist who played kazoo on ‘Woodstock’ album dies at 79
David Allen, a Navy veteran and longtime Stars and Stripes journalist who reported from Guam and Okinawa for nearly two decades, died Thursday after a prolonged battle with cancer, his sister Katherine Krais announced that day to his Facebook page. He was 79.
Shel Silverstein, Artist
Author, composer and cartoonist Shel Silverstein served as a draftee on Stars and Stripes’ Pacific staff in the mid-1950s and said it was the catapult that launched him to success and wealth.
The Pacific stars of Stripes
Stars and Stripes was meant to be a GI’s newspaper, so it should come as no surprise that many of the publication’s standout journalists were active-duty service members. Stars and Stripes’ Pacific staffers went on to work for “60 Minutes,” draw for Marvel Comics and snap photos for Life magazine.
Exclusive coverage of Olympic doping scandal catapulted former Stars and Stripes staffer’s career
Among them was former Stars and Stripes Pacific sports staffer Shelley Smith, who was about to get a huge career boost thanks to all that was breaking: “Ben Johnson has been caught taking drugs and is expected to be stripped of his 100-meter gold medal, according to International Olympic Committee sources,” the bulletin read from The Associated Press and other news services and sources.
Toshi Cooper, Librarian
After wartime terror and defeat, a Japanese life is rebuilt around Stars and Stripes
Former Stripes journalists look back on ‘an amazing experience’ in the Pacific
Working for Stars and Stripes Pacific marked a significant phase in many of its alumnus’ careers.