For a quarler of a century the Nieman Foundation under the curatorship of LOUIS M. LYONS has provided to a selected group of working newspapermen the stimulus of a year at Harvard. Mr. Lyons, who was one of the first Nieman Fellows in 1938, was on the staff of the Boston GLOBE for twenty-five years, and has been news commentator for Boston’s educational television station, WGBH, since 1950.
A veteran newspaperman and curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University for the past twenty-five years, LOUIS M. LYONShas worked at home and abroad with the foremost journalists of our time. He is widely known also for his news analysis, which is carried on many educational television stations.
The Chicago Tribune recently staged a characteristic crusade an using Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth of trying to weaken or destroy the American Republic. Moscow, Rhodes Scholars, Wall Street, and the New Deal were among the assorted villains alleged to be influencing these colleges. But what are the credentials of the Tribune to raise (questions of allegiance and good faith? A newspaperman for more than two decades, now Curator of the Nieman Foundation in Journalism at Harvard University, Lor is M. LYONS shows the kind of journalism on which the Tribune’s “crusade" depended.