Corbett, Scott

Winfield Scott Corbett was born on July 27, 1913 in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduation from high school in 1930 he attended Kansas City Junior College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in journalism in 1934 and moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance writer.

Elizabeth Corbett was born in Dachau, Germany in 1911. Her parents, Justin and Susan Esberg, had moved from California to Germany so that her father could study medicine in Munich. The family returned to California sometime before 1920. Elizabeth graduated from Mills College in Sacramento in 1932 and received her Master of Social Work degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1943.

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