Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1918, Oct. 1 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1936-1939 | Part-time reporter, editorial writer, and night editor, Michigan Daily, student newspaper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
| 1939 | A.B., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
| 1939-1940 | Reporter, Washington Post |
| 1941 | Reporter, Washington Bureau, New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, covering White House and government, Washington, D.C. |
| 1941-1942 | Head of the Far Eastern desk, Press and Radio Division, Foreign Information Service, Office of the Coordinator of Information, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942 | Married Elnora Fleurette Haynie (divorced) Syndicate news and feature writer, Office of War Information, Bureau of Overseas Publications, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942-1943 | White House correspondent, Voice of America, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. |
| 1943-1945 | Served in the Overseas Branch, Office of War Information, in Australia, Burma, China, India, New Guinea, Philippines, and Territory of Hawaii; chief, Psychological Warfare Team, attached to combat units and headquarters of General Joseph Warren Stilwell, China-Burma-India Theater, 1943-1944; chief of leaflet operations, Hollandia, New Guinea, Tacloban, Leyte Island, Philippines, and Manila, Philippines, attached to U.S. Sixth Army, Psychological Warfare Branch, Southwest Pacific Area, and to the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur, 1944-1945; attached to Central Pacific Theater, based in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1945 |
| 1945-1962 | Editor, U.S. News & World Report; associate editor in Washington, D.C., writing on foreign affairs, 1945-1948; Central European editor and bureau chief, West Germany, 1948-1951; Western European editor and Paris Bureau chief, Paris, France, 1951-1962 |
| 1947 | Covered Moscow Council of Foreign Ministers, Soviet Union, for U.S. News & World Report; toured Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Austria |
| pre-1953 | Married Jane Eakin (divorced) |
| 1962-1963 | Bureau chief and commentator, Columbia Broadcasting System News, Paris, France |
| 1963-1985 | Editorial Board member, New York Times, writing about international affairs, principally about United States-European relations |
| 1964 | Published Atlantic Crisis: American Diplomacy Confronts a Resurgent Europe. New York: W. W. Norton |
| 1986 | Married Mary (Nisbet) Temple |
| 2004, Mar. 22 | Died, Washington, D.C. |