 in English and was an officer in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1961, serving on destroyers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.His Navy service placed him in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1952, and in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis.After leaving the Navy, Fenton began his career in journalism as a domestic and foreign correspondent for the "Baltimore Sun", where he worked from 1961 to 1969.