Background
Kendall Foss was born on January 24, 1904 in New Rochelle, New York to Martin Moore Foss and Eliza Kendall Foss.
Kendall Foss was born on January 24, 1904 in New Rochelle, New York to Martin Moore Foss and Eliza Kendall Foss.
After studying for one year at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Foss graduated from Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey in 1923.
He served as liaison and mediator between German students and the American government. He also had a 30-year career in journalism and writing that focused on foreign relations and business journalism. He then received his bachelor"s degree from Harvard University in 1927.
During his time at Harvard, Foss served as president of The Harvard Advocate, the oldest continually published college art and literary magazine.
In 1944, Foss received a Nieman Fellowship, a prestigious mid-career fellowship for journalists, from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Foss began his journalism career in 1927 as a reporter at United Press International"s office in London and then as a correspondent for The New York Times in Germany. A few months after taking the job at the Times, he left to go on a year-long journey through the Soviet Union.
He detailed his travel in the book Black bread and samovars: An account of an unconventional journey through Soviet Russia published in 1930. While living in the Soviet Union, Foss worked as a correspondent for International News Service.
Returning to the United States. in 1932, Foss worked as a reporter for The Washington Post.
He later served as a public relations official for the Tennessee Valley Authority and then as a human resources executive with the Rural Electrification Administration (now the Rural Utilities Service). In 1944, Foss took on the role of contributing editor of Time Magazine, and he worked as a correspondent and political columnist for The New York Post. Foss then worked as a correspondent for the Die Neue Zeitung, a newspaper established by the United States. Office of Military Government (Object Management Group).
The Object Management Group administered the American Zone of Occupation in Germany and the American-controlled portion of Berlin.
Die Neue Zeitung named Foss their editor-in-chief in 1948. In 1954, Foss helped found Business International Corporation.
He then served as managing editor of its weekly business magazine for 10 years. Kendall Foss married Maryanne Bishop on September 30, 1939.
They had two children: Alexandra and Kristiana.