The Nieman Ten

Blessed in the memory of many newspapermen is the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the Milwaukee Journal's onetime publisher. She left a million dollars to Harvard, with which the university, in 1938, set up a fund to give selected newsmen time off for study at Harvard.

Last week Harvard announced the names of next year's Nieman fellows. For the first time the list included women: dark-haired Mary Ellen Leary, political reporter for the San Francisco News, and blond Charlotte Louise Fitz Henry, Chicago night trunk-wire editor for the Associated Press. Others: Robert Joseph Manning, Washington U.P. staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United Press war correspondent; Leon Svirsky, TIME'S science editor.

Besides specialties like anthropology and science, and the usual run of politics and economics, two (Manning and Hewlett) will study Russian.

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