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...difficult to imagine a more complete collection of a man's work and life than the quantity of material Yardley, a 1968-69 Nieman Fellow, compiled in Ring. He begins the book with the essence of Lardner's world, Frank Chance's baseball diamond, and traces his writing career to its sad, unfulfilled end. Baseball, to Lardner, was an American institution. He loved the players, and revered them as heroes the way most of America did--but Lardner's coverage of the White Sox for the Chicago Tribune was much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much...
...only because Fairbank's books are so widely read that David E. Kelley, a current graduate student in East Asian studies, says of the professor, "It's hard to see where his personal perspective ends and his influence on others begins." And James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation who wrote his doctoral dissertation under Fairbank, says "One of the things that is astonishing about this person is that as a mentor and guide and guru he adopts different styles for different disciples and clearly develops in his own mind different routes and timetables his mentees could follow...
Sincerely, James C. Thomson Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Governments of the Western democracies helped promulgate a fraudulent account of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Herbert Southworth, a noted writer on Spanish affairs, said yesterday at an informal meeting of the Nieman fellows...
Champion fit the bill pretty well. He was a reporter on a financial beat for the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1950s, and spent the year 1956-57 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in journalism. He was press secretary to Edmund G. Brown Sr. in his campaign for Governor of California, and was the state's director of finances in 1961-62. He also had experience as the vice president of the University of Minnesota for finances, planning and operations, and served as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1968-69. Champion came to Harvard...