Taves served in Yokohama, Japan after WWII as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps, chief of the neuropsychiatric section.
After college, Taves joined the US Army Medical Corps from 1946 to 1948 "reaching the rank of Captain while he was chief of the neuropsychiatric section at the 155th Station Hospital in Yokohama, Japan".
Taves moved to New York City after the military, establishing his medical practice in psychoanalysis and psychiatry, then eventually relocating to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954.
[3] "The authors have analyzed a representative number of sightings and have found what they consider to be rational explanations for them in terms of the normal processes of perception combined with possible meteorological conditions and well-known astronomical phenomena.
This is the Place: Brigham Young and the New Zion published in 1991 seeks to validate the authorship of Smith's writings using the stylometric approach.
Described by his son (Henry) as 'congenial, distinguished, and a stickler for the English language,' Dr. Taves enjoyed golfing at his winter home in Naples, Florida.