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Roberts, Chalmers Mcgeagh was born on November 18, 1910 in Pittsburgh. Son of Franklin B. and Lillian B. (McGeagh) Roberts.
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Roberts, Chalmers Mcgeagh was born on November 18, 1910 in Pittsburgh. Son of Franklin B. and Lillian B. (McGeagh) Roberts.
AB, Amherst College, 1933. Doctor of Humane Letters, Amherst College, 1963.
Reporter Washington Post, 1933-1934, Associate Press., Pittsburgh bureau, 1934-1935, Toledo News-Bee, 1936-1938, Japan Times, Tokyo, 1938-1939. Assistant managing editor Washington Daily News, 1939-1941. Sunday editor Washington Times-Herald, 1941.
Staff Office of War Information, London, Washington, 1941-1943, Life magazine, 1946-1947, Washington Star, 1947-1949. Staff writer Washington Post, 1949-1971, reporter local and national news, 1949-1953, chief diplomatic correspondent, 1953-1971, contributing columnist, from 1971, San Diego Union, 1971-1986.
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Author: Washington Past and Present, 1950, Can We Meet the Russians Half Way?, 1958, The Nuclear Years: The Arms Race and Arms Control 1945-1970, 1970, First Rough Draft: A Journalist's Journal of Our Times, 1973, The Washington Post: The First 100 Years, 1977, review In the Shadow of Power: The Story of the Washington Post, 1989, How Did I Get Here So Fast? Rhetorical Questions and Available Answers from a Long and Happy Life, 1991. Contributor articles to popular magazines.
Captain United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member American Newspaper Guild, State Department Corrs. Association (president 1958-1959), Council Foreign Relations, National Book Critics Circuit.
Married Lois Hall, September 11, 1941. Children: David H., Patricia E. Roberts Monahan, Christopher C.