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...passes herself off as representing. It is true that the two of us had a lot in common. I, too, counted down Friendship-7, agonized with Beaver Cleaver and compared SAT scores. Both of us recall much of our past as photos from Life and the cover of Newsweek. Not surprisingly, many of her recollections -- if not her conclusions -- from growing up in Durham, New Hampshire, are similar to mine, from growing up in suburban Philadelphia...
Died. Frederick Sessions ("Fritz") Beebe, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post; of cancer; in Manhattan. After arranging the purchase of Newsweek for one of his best clients, the Post Co., Beebe abandoned his law practice to become chairman of the board in 1961. When Post Publisher Philip Graham died two years later, Beebe assumed control of the firm until Graham's widow and the Post Co.'s principal stockholder, Katharine Meyer Graham, was able to take charge. A shrewd businessman and sensitive employer, Beebe guided the company's expansion into television, book publishing and part ownership...
Kevin Buckley, Newsweek's Saigon correspondent for four years until he came to Harvard as a Nieman this year, says that the program can't fail to help people be better journalists. "It's a good thing to take a year off in any profession," Buckley said. "You particularly need to escape the deadening pace that most jobs in journalism require. For me it was extremely valuable to have the time to get reacquainted with the United States and to think it all through...
...standard joke is that a Nieman isn't good for anything more than membership in a Harvard club and a job at Time (Newsweek) magazine. The joke speaks both to the striking loyalty which most Niemans feel to the program and also to its reputation as a job improvement mechanism...
...limited number of students individually about his career field. Out of an initial mailing of 378 requests for assistance, 125 alumni from around the country have responded, Lorraine Chickerring-Clay '72, coordinator of the program, said yesterday. She added that the careers represented include an editor of Newsweek, a grape farmer and several artists and television broadcasters...