Word: nieman
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STEELE studied American history under the Arthur Schlesingers (father and son), Frederick Merk and Samuel E. Morison as a Nieman Fellow (1951-52) at Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry...
...Nieman Foundation has announced the appointment of 11 American news papermen, including Pulitzer Prize winner J. Anthony Lewis '48, as Nieman Fellows...
...Nieman Fellows, who will be on leave of absence from their newspapers, are Lewis, former Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and presently a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times; Harold V. Liston, city editor of the Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington. Ill.; and Robert F. Campbell, editorial writer of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel...
Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, will moderate the discussion, at 8 p.m. in Alumnae Lecture Room of Longfellow Hall...
...wonderful shape now as far as time is concerned," she said. "But by Sunday we might be ten minutes over. There's no way of telling about the timing. Alistair (Alistair Cooke, the show's regular emcee who arrived in town Thursday night to speak to the Nieman Fellows) has done the show long enough so that he knows exactly what a minute is. But the other people on the show won't. That's why we need to rehearse so much...