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=== Early life ===
Robert William St. John was born on March 9, 1902, in [[Chicago]]. His mother Amy (''nee'' Archer) was a [[nurse]], and his father John, a [[pharmacist]]. He had one brother, Archer, who was two years younger. In 1910, his family moved to the well-to-do suburban [[Oak Park, Illinois]]. There, St. John attended [[Oak Park River Forest High School]], where he was in a writing class with [[Ernest Hemingway]]. According to a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' interview he gave in 1994, their teacher kept them both after class one day to tell them they had no future in writing: "Neither one of you will ever learn to write."<ref>{{cite web|author=Los Angeles Times |url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-02-10/bay-area/17475890_1_surrender-terms-bells-english-professor |title=The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2003 |publisher=Articles.sfgate.com |date=2003-02-10 |access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Douglas Martin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/us/robert-st-john-100-globe-trotting-reporter-and-author.html |title=The New York Times, February 8, 2003 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date= 8 February 2003|access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref>
St. John's father died from cancer in 1917, and the mother remarried (he had a half brother from his mother's second marriage), while St. John, at age 16, lied about his age to enlist in the [[United States Navy|Navy]] during [[World War I]].
=== Investigative
On his return from [[France]], St. John became the campus correspondent for the ''[[Hartford Courant]]'' while attending [[Trinity College, Hartford|Trinity College]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. But he was soon expelled for trying to expose the college president's censorship of an outspoken English professor.
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|url = https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/belgrade-blitz/
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