Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 14 months Dave Richardson has been a TIME correspondent in the Middle East, with headquarters in Beirut. Having spent only five weeks of the past six years in the U.S., he is looking forward to a Quiet Year Of academic life. He is back on a leave of absence to accept one of the fellowships for American foreign correspond ents granted by the Council on Foreign Relations...
...economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York for council meetings, symposiums with visiting statesmen, and library research...
...Richardson, a journalism graduate of Indiana University, came to TIME after a war career as a soldier-reporter for Yank Magazine in the Far East. He was the Army weekly's first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
Hired by TIME in 1945, Richardson went back to India, set up our first postwar bureau in New Delhi, and two years later moved to Germany to open the TIME office in Frankfurt. His next assignment was TIME's London bureau, where he spent two years before moving to the Middle East tour of duty...
...Richardson, with his wife and two daughters (Hilary, 4, born in Frankfurt, and Julia, 2, born in London), made the return trip to the U.S. last month by ship, "because we felt the children should get some sense of transition from country to country." The move from London to Beirut, Richardson explained, "was about an eight-hour plane ride. For nearly a year afterward, Hilary thought we were still in England, and kept asking when we were going to take the bus back to London...