A native of Iowa, he moved to
New York City in the 1930s where he was a journalist for the
New York World-Telegram. He was the President of
The Newspaper Guild from 1934 to 1940. In 1940, he married
Leane Zugsmith. After the
Second World War, he and his wife visited
Japan and
China to work as correspondents for the newspaper
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