Among its twenty-nine early notable supporters were William Appleman Williams, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Waldo Frank and Carleton Beals.
After serving in the South Pacific as an executive officer aboard a Landing Ship Medium, he was stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas where he made plans to become an aviator like his father (who had been in the Army Air Corps until he died in a plane crash in 1929).
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The following academic year (1951-1952) Williams taught at Ohio State University, but (according to Williams) he collided with Woody Hayes (in his first year as football coach and, like Williams, a former naval officer) over low grades for a football player that Williams would not change and the incident apparently led to his needing to find another appointment.
William Shakespeare | William Laud | William Blake | William | John Williams | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | Robin Williams | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | Robbie Williams | William Shatner | William Faulkner | Tennessee Williams | William Randolph Hearst | Williams College | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | Ralph Vaughan Williams | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray |