11 Newspapermen Awarded Nieman Fellowships Here

Nieman Fellowships, granted to newspapermen so that they may "elevate and promote the standards of journalism in America" by study at Harvard, have not gone the way of most civilian educational bequests during wartime, as the recent awarding of 11 of the fellowships for study of post-war problems proves.

Paying approximately the same salary as the recipients received from their papers, the fellowships were restricted this year to men outside the draft in age or military availability whose intention for study is to equip themselves to deal with post-war problems.

This group is the sixth to be awarded fellowships under the bequest of over a million dollars of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder and publisher of the Milwaukee Journal.

The men are Theodore Andrica, foreign nationalities editor, Cleveland Press; Lawrence A. Fernsworth, telegraph editor, New York Daily News; Paul J. Hughes, general news and political reporter, Louisville (Ky.) Times.

Charles S. Jennings, copy editor, Chicago Daily News; Robert Lasseter, editor, Rutherford Courier, Murfressboro, Tenn.; Fred W. Maguire, editor, Lowell (Mass.) "Sunday Telegram; Jacob S. Qualey, copy editor, Minneapolis Star Journal; John W. Shivley, real estate and industrial editor, Kansas City Star.

John B. Terry, Washington correspondent, Honolulu Star-Bullestin; Leigh White, news writer and commentator, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington, D. C., office; and Herbert Yahraes, magazine editor and special writer, The Newspaper PM, New York.