Word: monro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up outside University Hall last term, only a few of the Deans and officials within noticed his arrival. Most of them heard about it for the first time from the morning papers. Across the way in Weld Hall, however, there was no such administrative indifference. There, John U. Monro, immediately recognizing the bird's potentialities, mentioned it to a CRIMSON reporter within a few hours of its appearance...
...Monro's alert news sense comes naturally. If he were not the University's able and alert Counsellor for Veterans, he would probably be a newspaperman. As undergraduate leader of the most daring journalistic venture in recent Harvard history, end later as a staffer in the News Office, he seemed headed, before the war, for a permanent berth in the Fourth Estate. Four years of administrative responsibility on an aircraft carrier made all the difference and put the erstwhile leg-man behind a desk once...
...Monro came to Cambridge from Andover in 1930 as a freshman and quickly joined the CRIMSON, where he soon became editorial chairman. In the middle of his senior year, he led the rebelling faction in an internal dispute over CRIMSON policy and organization. "The fight split the board right down the middle," he says, "and there seemed nothing for the dissenters to do but resign and start a new paper...
...Monro became president of the new daily, called the Journal, which included on its masthead such present greats in the editorial world as E. J. Kahn '37 of the New Yorker and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 managing editor of Life. Despite a brave start, the paper was forced out of business after a few weeks by debts and the difficulties of competition with an established monopoly...
...abortive Journal struggle left Monro so exhausted that he finessed his last term in 1934 and returned a year later to finish his College work. Meanwhile, he started to help out in the old News Office. When he finally got his degree in 1935, he stayed on there, and for the next six years worked on the far-reaching and complicated business of Harvard publicity. Simultaneously, he filled such odd jobs as correspondent for the Boston Transcript until its demise in 1941, and even took pictures for the Alumni Bulletin. (Like many good reporters, Monro can juggle a Speed-Graphic...