Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1906, Apr. 19 | Born, Vaslui, Romania |
| 1920 | Emigrated to United States |
| 1928 | Naturalized United States citizen |
| 1929 | A.B., College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y. |
| 1932 | J.D., Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1933 | Studied at Moscow Law Institute, Moscow, USSR |
| 1934-1937 | Moscow correspondent, New York Herald Tribune, Morning Post of London, and Reuters of London |
| 1937-1973 | Chief correspondent and manager of Moscow bureau, United Press International |
| 1937 | Married Ludmilla Nikitina |
| 1942 | First American correspondent to file an eyewitness report from the Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1953 | First westerner to report Joseph Stalin's death |
| 1954 | Published L'U.R.S.S. après Staline (n.p.: Gallimard. 254 pp.) |
| 1955 | Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1962-1963 | Visiting lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. |
| 1973 | Retired from United Press International and moved to Madison, Wis. |
| 1973-1979 | Kemper K. Knapp professor and adjunct professor, University of Wisconsin School of Journalism, Madison, Wis. |
| 1991, Apr. 4 | Died, Madison, Wis. |