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Jack Bass, governmental affairs reporter for the Columbia, S.C., State and a Nieman Fellow this year, illustrates the pattern. Bass, 31, was born in Columbia and has spent most of his life in South Carolina. He arrived at Harvard last fall with his wife and three children, two of them schoolage, and ended up settling in Belmont...
Bass is affiliated with Dunster House (each Fellow has a House affiliation) but visits there "only about once every other week." He and his wife spend most of their evenings in Belmont "because babysitting is a major expense." Both married and single Nieman Fellows receive the same stipend of $160 a week...
Some of the Fellows who study here in their particular fields of reporting do so for good reasons and with good results. One of the intentions of the Nieman program is to train competent journalists in special areas; in science, medicine, and economics, for example, an academic refresher is essential if the reporter hopes to talk the same language as the people he is talking...
Anthony Lewis, a Nieman Fellow in 1956-57, spent his year at the Law School and returned to the New York Times as its Supreme Court reporter. But Lewis was a Harvard graduate and knew just what Cambridge could offer him before he came here on his Fellowship. Many others who specialize their study are merely dabbling in the areas they know most about. It makes the year easier, but it contributes little to journalism, less to Harvard, and less still to the Nieman Fellow himself...
What Jack Bass has missed at Harvard because of family and professional pressures, Robert C. Maynard, reporter for the York, Pa., Gazette and Daily has been able to find. Maynard, 28, comes from New York City, is jazz fan, and smokes Gauloises; so for him the Nieman year has required no major cultural adjustment. He settled in a bachelor apartment near Central Square...