Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1922, Aug. 26 | Born, Pawtucket, R.I. |
| 1940-1943 | Obituary writer, Providence Journal, Providence, R.I. |
| 1944 | B.S., Brown University, Providence, R.I. |
| 1943-1947 | United States Army, Signal Corps |
| 1947 | M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y. |
| 1947-1948 | Foreign news editor, International News Service, New York, N.Y. |
| 1948-1950 | Chief, Vienna, Austria, bureau, International News Service; covered assignments in France, Italy, England, Ireland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria |
| 1950-1995 | News correspondent and commentator, NBC News War correspondent, Korea, 1950-1952; broadcast regularly from Korea and Japan Reporter and commentator, World News Roundup and Monitor, 1953-1955 Chief correspondent, Moscow, Soviet Union, 1955-1959 Chief correspondent, Rome, Italy, 1959-1967, 1968-1970 Chief correspondent, London, England, 1967-1968 Chief economics correspondent, Washington, D.C., 1971-1995 |
| 1952-1953 | Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1955 | Selected as one of the ten most outstanding young men in America by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce |
| 1955-1959 | Writer, Times of London, London, England |
| 1956 | Overseas Press Club award for the best radio and television reporting from abroad |
| 1957 | Married Nancy Cartmell Jones National Headliners' Club award for outstanding radio network broadcasting |
| 1959 | Published Main Street, U.S.S.R. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 408 pp.) |
| 1960 | Published, Travel Guide to Russia (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 416 pp.) |
| 1963 | Published Main Street, Italy (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 542 pp.) Named one of the most outstanding graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism, New York, N.Y., on the occasion of the school's fiftieth anniversary |
| 1966 | Received a television Emmy citation |
| 1973 | Published The New Worker in Soviet Russia (New York: Macmillan. 191 pp.) |
| 1978 | Martin R. Gainsborough Award for best economic reporting |
| 1988 | William Rogers Award, Brown University, Providence, R.I. |
| 1995 | Lifetime Achievement Award, National Broadcasters Hall of Fame |
| 1995-2004 | Dean, School of International Communications, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla. |
| 1996-2004 | Commentator, CNBC (television network) |
| 1997-2006 | Commentator, Public Broadcasting System, Nightly Business Report |
| 2009, Mar. 27 | Died, Washington, D.C. |