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...Inside Fodor." Soon afterward, the cocky young reporter put in for the Chicago Daily News's foreign service, which then boasted such prestigious byliners as Paul Scott Mowrer, his brother Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Hal O'Flaherty, Junius Wood. Turned down, Gunther quit his $55-a-week job and hopped a ship for England, where he was i) promptly hired by the News's London bureau, 2) fired when Chicago spotted his byline. After six months with the United Press in London, he was taken on by the News's Paris bureau and launched into an invaluable...
EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER...
...most moviegoers-and to some deskbound newsmen-it sometimes seems that the globetrotting, glamorized foreign correspondent has all the fun. But in the current Atlantic Monthly, Paul Scott Mowrer, longtime foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prizewinner and onetime editor of the Chicago Daily News, gives a more realistic account of the lonely, often frustrating, sometimes wildly exasperating life of a correspondent...
...home," said Mowrer, "[the reporter] had a deep sense of being where he belonged. Abroad . . . he is quite by himself, in a strange place of which he can never be really a part... To get to know [even Englishmen] takes about a year." Worse than the loneliness is the treatment of cable news at home: "[The correspondent] looks for his piece. It should have been on page one. He finds it on page sixteen. It appears rather short. That is because they have simply left out the key paragraph . . . Their editorials make him wonder if they even read his stuff...
Second in the Harvard batting order is O. H. Mowrer, associate professor of Education. Professor Mowrer, who is also psychologist in charge of the University's Psycho-Educational Clinic, will consider the theme, "Partnerships in Marriage," the following week, Monday, May 24, at the same hour...