Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Parents want what's best for their kids, like a safe home, a good education, and the support

they need to push them forward in life.

And those parents expect their children to follow through, to build themselves up using

the foundation that was laid for them.

Of course, some kids fall through the cracks.

DeForest was born in New York City on Christmas Day in 1899.

His father Belmont was a successful surgeon, while his mother worked as a commercial illustrator,

and eventually the art director of a popular magazine.

The family grew up on New York's Upper West Side, DeForest, his parents, and his two sisters.

While his mother and father weren't as emotionally supportive as he might have liked, they made

sure he was given everything he needed to succeed in life, if only he had shown any gratitude.

DeForest wasn't a studious pupil.

After bouncing from one private school to another, he was sent to Phillips Academy, a prestigious

boarding school in Massachusetts, but it wasn't his grades that got him in.

Someone in his family had pulled some strings in an effort to put the young troublemaker

on a path toward Yale.

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