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Brown served in the Army with the rank of T5 during World War II and went on to travel the world as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun Times.
He also owned and operated a number of Wisconsin-based media companies, including the Zion-Benton News in Zion, Ill., the Lake Geneva Regional News, the Kenosha News, and Media Innovations, which was purchased by the family of Wisconsin Gov.
Tommy Thompson in 1961.
Now, Brown is being honored with a scholarship at the Kenosha Community Foundation, where he's a long-time board member, the Kenosha News reports.
"Howard is said to have boundless generosity, believing that community involvement in civic organizations was crucialmost notably of course to us here is his service as a long-time Board member of the Kenosha Community Foundation," Amy Greil, the foundation's executive director, writes at the foundation's website.
Brown served in the military government in Germany after the war, and after the 44th Division landed in France in September 1944, "he served in the military government in Germany," Greil writes.
"After the war he served in the military government in France.
He returned to the US in 1950 and became president of United Communications Corporation, which owned and
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