Background
Grandin, Thomas B. was born on July 19, 1907 in Cleveland. Son of George Wilbert and Mabel Gordon (Burnham) Grandin.
writer business analyst photographer. radio sales executive
Grandin, Thomas B. was born on July 19, 1907 in Cleveland. Son of George Wilbert and Mabel Gordon (Burnham) Grandin.
Graduate Kent (Connecticut) School,1926. Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1930. Postgraduate Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris (France), 1931, U. Berlin (Germany), 1932.
Research analysis and writing, 1933-1938, on railroad and truck transportation for International Chamber of Commerce, on international finance for Council on Foreign Relations, on political use of radio and techniques of persuasion for Rockefeller Foundation’s Geneva Research Centre. Special correspondent in France for Columbia Broadcasting System, 1938, covering Munich crisis. Business representative and chief correspondent Columbia Broadcasting System, France, 1939-1940.
Chief editor Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, Federal Communication Commission, 1942-1943, director operations in the United States and abroad, confidential government mission to Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, India and England. War correspondent ABC, 1944, officially qualified United States Army parachutist, broadcast all United States networks first eyewitness radio report Normandy landings, Omaha beachhead. Appointed special assistant to director of news ABC, 1945.
Account executive D’Arcy Advertising Company, 1946. Business analyst Society Savings, Cleveland, 1947-1948. Nat. fleet sales manager Hull-Dobbs, Inc., 1949-1950.
Rancher in Arizona, 1953-1970. Now engaged in writing and freelance photography.
Clubs: National Press (Washington).
Married Natalia Parligras, February 8, 1940 (deceased).; married second, Beulah Thompson Paul, March 21, 1970. Children: Thomas, George, Natalia.