He began his career in journalism as a campus
correspondent at The Houston Post during high school and his freshman year at
college; newswriter and editor, Scripps-Howard, also for United Press, Houston,
Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas, Austin, and El Paso, Texas; and New York
City; United Press war correspondent, 1942-45, foreign correspondent, reopening
bureaus in Amsterdam, Brussels; chief correspondent, Nuremberg war crimes
trials, bureau manager, Moscow, 1946-48, manager and contributor, 1948-49, CBS
News correspondent, 1950-81, special correspondent, since 1981; managing
editor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 1962-81; one of fourty semi
finalists in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the
Challenger tragedy); candidate from New York for CBS News. |