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...foreign correspondents in Washington, U.S. officials give highest marks to the British, whose tradition of excellence dates from the late Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, witty correspondent for the Times of London from 1920 to 1947. "Next to our own people, who are unbeatable, the British correspondents report and interpret the U.S. better than anybody else," says a senior State Department official. "The British are great-and have tremendous influence...
Died. Sir Wilmott Harsant Lewis, 72, scholarly onetime dean of Washington foreign correspondents (until his retirement two years ago) and "unofficial British ambassador to the U.S."; in Washington. Sir Wilmott spent 27 years in the U.S. for the London Times, was knighted in 1931 for his services in promoting Anglo-American friendship...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, the wise and witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, born in Cardiff, Wales, went to China in 1899, covered the Boxer Rebellion. He has never returned to Britain except on brief visits. For George Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, Bill Lewis covered the Russo-Japanese War. He worked for Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, spent seven years as editor of the Manila Times...
Married. Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, 62, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; and Socialite Mrs. Norma Bowler Hull,* 51; both for the third time, in Lorton...