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I for attention, and the last few years,
I but one, in the aching need for food. Yet always he’s been independent — and contradictory. Just look and see:
He was bom on Friday the thirteenth in Salt Lake City, Utah, of a Mormon family. His father was editor of the Deseret News at the time Bob put in an appearance, and three sons had arrived before him — Wayne, Walter and Richard, who were admittedly the most attractive boys in town. Bob was immediately i! stamped as the only insignificant member of the family. He was [ hardly walking before adults were saying in his presence, “Isn’t it a shame he’s not handsome like his brothers? So skinny and nervous — and wearing glasses too. What a pity!”
Well, Bob didn’t like pity — nor insignificance. So he began rebelling in his crib and by the time he was I out of it he was the problem child of Salt Lake City. At school the | only way he could get attention was j by fighting, breaking windows and pulling hair — and he did all of these i with such tenacious energy that he was expelled at the age of six from school. Then his family moved to Ogden, with his worried parents hoping aloud that in a new city Bob would become a new character. But he didn’t. Again he was the terror of the school; and added to that he formed the habit of running away to another town — where he supported himself by selling papers until he was yanked home again.
THE Walkers were finally desper1 ate. They scraped together enough money to send him to a really disciplinary school — the San Diego Military Academy in California. But discipline was perfume to Bob’s nos' trils and he was fast becoming the hoodlum of San Diego — when he was stopped in midstream by the first woman who influenced his life, Mrs. Virginia Atkinson. She was the drama coach of the school and in this proudly arrogant, sensitive boy she was sure there was acting talent, if she could induce him to show it. Bob belligerently tried out for a play under her persuasion — and for the first time in his life found solid ground under his feet. He was a superb actor. The realization that he could excel in something changed his personality overnight— and by the time he graduated
A lively look at the
life of Robert Walker, whose
"Hargrove" is the symbol of G. I. Joes everywhere
BV ELEANOR HARRIS
Above: Bob, the star, relaxing between scenes at the studio. Left: Bob, the father, playing with his sons, Michael, aged three, and Bobby (about to hurdle the high fence with his daddy's help), aged two
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