He sent Frank Marshall Davis and others to groom the boy...
Did he really? FMD moved to Hawaii in 1948 with his wife Helen Canfield Davis. What a load of garbage. Did you post that as an entertainment or as a distraction?
I think he meant, he (Fred Newman) sent the boy to FMD.
Do you have the means to find the names of any of Frederic Delano Newman’s (late of New York) sisters?
“....After his father died when young Fred was 9, his mother raised her five children alone,”