European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                N�sftflg0feiks night tank firing at Baum Holdar Germany Ona of tha photo that won Stara and stripes tha Kant state photo award in 1960, final peace cold War continued from Page 47 the stars and stripes photo staff took top honors in the Kent state University photo contest in 1960, beating out 65 other papers including the Chicago Sun times and the new York daily news. The entry a 20-shot exhibit highlighting the staffs Best work that year included contributions from red Grandy Gus Schuettler Gene Bane and ted Rohde. Grandy and Schuettler also won individual awards in the annual contest which was conducted by the University a journalism department. A stay in cheap hotels and drink in expensive bars a was stripes reporter Wally Beenes personal Credo and the philosophy paid off in Spades in the summer of 1962. Beene was hanging out in the lobby bar of the Ritz hotel in Paris when Salvadore Dali Spencer Tracy May 1961. Red Grandy double take in Cannes France 1958. Red Grandy Beene the King of the Spanish surrealism movement entered with a group of friends and took a Corner table. Beene was at the bar trying to think of some Way to approach the artist when an inebriated Man staggered in and demanded a drink. When the bartender refused the Man insisted he was sober and As proof performed a perfect head stand. Dali fascinated by the performance sidled up to the bar and asked a is that someone i should know a Beene took that Opportunity to join the artists party and three months later got an exclusive interview with Dali at his Home in cad ques Spain. Beene is now a journalism professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The pay is better but there a no Ritz. By the time stripes celebrated its 20th the award winning photo staff 1960. File anniversary in 1962, circulation was hovering near 150,000, and the Bookstore operation had grown into a $10 million a year business. Although technically part of the . European come stripes was supervised by the . Army in Europe and a pair of advisory boards that included representatives from the paper an and the major commands in Europe. A staff of nearly 2,000 helped get the paper to such far Flung spots As Kabul Afghanistan and Asmara Ethiopia in addition to Germany Italy France and much of the rest of Europe. Papers sent to Adana Turkey for example were trucked to the nearby Frankfurt Airport then flown to Athens. After swapping planes the papers continued to Istanbul then after another change of planes on to Ankara. The bundles were then picked up by taxi delivered to a bus terminal and shipped to Adana. At the bus terminal there a private contractor loaded them onto his truck for the final 30-minute leg of the 1,734-Milc voyage. Pete Foley a 45-year-old stripes reporter was one of 52 people to miraculously survive the crash of a super Constellation Airliner in late 1962 when the plane lost three engines and ditched in the Atlantic 500 Miles from Ireland. The survivors packed into a Lifeboat designed for 20, endured six hours of freezing water and burning aviation fuel before being rescued by a Swiss freighter. One of the crash survivors the wife of an army lieutenant colonel died before she could be rescued. Her husband scant feet away in the dark never knew she had made it to the safety of the Lifeboat. Foley a first person account of the crash in which 25 people died ran on Page 1 of stripes and was reprinted by the saturday evening Post. Continued on Page 50 Foley saturday april 18, 1992 50th anniversary special edition a Page 49