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1917 • F. Scott Fitzgerald joined the 45th Infantry regiment. He was stationed first at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where one of his superiors was the young Dwight Eisenhower.
1929 • D. H. Lawrence, in Paris looking for a publisher for Lady Chatterley’s Lover, meets Harry Crosby of The Black Sun Press. In spite of having corresponded for a year, they disagree violently about everything.