![]() He was sent instead to boot camp and then received further training as a radioman and gunner. Newman enrolled in the Navy V-12 program at Yale University, hoping to be accepted for pilot training, but was dropped when it was discovered he was color blind. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater. Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. At the age of seven, he made his acting debut, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. Newman showed an early interest in the theater, which his mother encouraged. Newman’s mother worked in his father’s store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager. Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying, “it’s more of a challenge”. His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Homonna, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Humenné in Slovakia). His father was Jewish (Paul’s paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland). ![]() He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko Slovak: Terézia Fecková) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store. Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland).
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