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Flora Lewis, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, has been awarded the first annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lectureship by Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She will speak at the University next month, officials said yesterday...
DIED. Louis Lyons, 84, distinguished newspaper journalist, radio essayist, director of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and vigilant watchdog of the American press; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent...
...member of the Nieman Foundation's first class in 1938. Lyons was appointed the foundation's curator in 1939 and held that position until ill health forced him to retire in 1964. The Nieman Foundation invites journalists to study at Harvard for a year...
...American journalism has lost one of its great mentors," James C. Thomson Jr., current curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday, adding. "Louis Lyons was a national conscience for the profession. He embodied excellence, courage and integrity." Thomson said that even after Lyons retired, he "was constantly in touch with and caring about the Nieman Follows, both the new ones and the alumni...
...Former Nieman Fellow Anthony Lewis, a New York Times columnist, wrote earlier this year of Lyons. "In an age of image-making and exploitation, he stands for old-fashioned decency...