Pinkerton to Be New Head of News Office

William M. Pinkerton, a member of the United States News in 1945, was appointed director of the University News Office during the vacation and took ever his new duties the day after New Years.

Pinkerton was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1940-41, and served as a Lieutenant in the Navy for three years after leaving the University, with duty in Washington and the Alentiane.

The new director of the News Office had worked in Washington before the war for the Associated Press from 1935 to 1940 and did newspaper work on his hometown paper, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, before that.