BRADLEE NAMED TO HEAD NEWSWEEK BUREAU HERE
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CIA-RDP74-00297R000201500027-8
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December 23, 2016
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October 25, 2013
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Publication Date:
April 25, 1961
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Bradlee Named to Hea
Newsweek BureAm ere
Benjamin C. Bradlee has pean correSPOncre\it,after serv-
-0;
been named ? chief of News-!ing three year A''Press attache
week's Washington Bureau ac-or."he United States Embassy
cording to an announcement in Paris.
yesterday by Osborn Elliott,' He moved to the Washing-
editor, .of the magazine. ton staff Of Newsweek in 1957
Bradlee succeeds Kenneth and., two years later was pro-
G. Crawford who become S moled ? f o assistant bureau
Ney'vsweek's AIN?r4shington colt' manager. From 4948 to 1951,
.?
umnist ErAet, K. .-Lindley, Bradlee as a staff reporter
who has wraith thge 'column for lhe Washingtcn Post.
for the past 20 sears ; --.10awford 'iucceeded Hey-
,
WiTel Broun, founder of the
?
Bradlee Crawford
. . new assignments
ng the Magazine to lecture,
_ write and travel, Elliott said.1
Bradlee,: 38, joined News)
1
Neck in 1934.as chief Euro-
American Newspaper Guild,
as its president. in 1940. He
joined Newsweek in 1943 as a
war correspondent ' and . was
tile first United States news-
man ashore at Normandy on
D-day. He became chief of
the Washington Bureau in
1954.
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