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His father, Arnold, a World War II veteran who served in what was then called the United States Army Air Forces, liked the series.

Lear was attending Emerson College in Boston, with the intention of majoring in journalism, when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942.

He enlisted in the Army Air Forces and was trained in meteorology at Caltech in Pasadena.

He was studying geology at Brooklyn College and playing center on the school’s football team — the quarterback was Allie Sherman, who would later be the head coach of the New York Giants — when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in World War II and was commissioned as a lieutenant.

He studied Latin and Greek at Groton and mastered mathematics at Yale, meteorology in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and physics under Clarence Zener, Edward Teller and Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, where he earned a doctorate in 1952.