Professions: Author of numerous books on broadcasting, including Rich News, Poor News (1978) and The Eye of the Storm (1980, co-author); one novel, The End of the Party (1976); and two highly personal memoirs about his experiences with heart disease and cancer, Spare Days (1988) and Second Chance: A Life After Death (1999); lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1968 to 1984; director of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism; longtime contributing editor for Parabola magazine; managing editor of Show magazine from 1961 to 1964; contributing editor for Time magazine from 1948 to 1952, and for Newsweek from 1955 to 1959; served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946.
Degrees: A.B. from Harvard, 1942; M.A. in English from Drake, 1976.
Death: August 19, 2006, at his home in Manhattan, of congestive heart failure.
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