sentences:  He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants.After graduating from Passaic High School, where he focused his studies on theater, he began to study on a scholarship at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.However, once his father died he decide to earn his bachelor's degree at the city college of New York, which he earned in 1941
  
  After one semester of graduate work at Columbia University, (where he met his future wife, Madeline Marcus) pearl harbor was bombed and he was drafted into the army and chose the "ordnance" corps.