Later an ambassador and diplomat, the young Harvard graduate had also
been a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy in 1918.
He came down with malaria and jaundice at the same time Hemingway was
wounded and the two became close friends in the Red Cross hospital in
Milan.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Libya, 1952; U.S. Ambassador
to Senegal, Mauritania, 1960. Also wrote books about aviation.