Meet the American who invented the folding beach chair, Fredric Arnold, WWII hero, innovator, artist, actor

Meet the American who invented the folding beach chair, Fredric Arnold, WWII hero, innovator, artist, actor

Fredric Arnold was a "reluctant warrior," creative dynamo and decorated World War II combat pilot.  He miraculously survived 50 missions of flying P-38 Lightning warplanes over North Africa and Europe.  The death he witnessed and inflicted in war was in deep contrast with the mild-mannered child prodigy artist from Chicago who spent the rest of his life as a creator: drawing, writing, acting and inventing.  "He was a sensitive artist who ended u…