Background
Wertenbaker was born circa 1901, the son of American football coach William C. "Bill" Wertenbaker.
Wertenbaker was born circa 1901, the son of American football coach William C. "Bill" Wertenbaker.
1901–1955) was an American journalist Time (magazine) and author Wertenbaker worked for Time publications (Fortune, Life, and Time) from 1931 to 1948. By 1942, he was already the magazine"s foreign editors
Whittaker Chambers, who served as foreign editor later in World World War II, described him and other colleagues in his 1952 memoir: I had scarcely edited it so long when most of Time"s European correspondents joined in a round-robin protesting my editorial views and demanding my removal.
They were seconded by a clap of thunder out of Asia, from the Time bureau in Chungking. Let me list the signers of the round-robin, or those among Time"s foreign correspondents who supported it, and continued to feed out news written from the viewpoint that the Soviet Union is a benevolent democracy of unaggressive intent, or that the Chinese Communists are "agrarian liberals," for I think that they are enlightening.
Wertenbaker, the late Richard Lauterbach, Theodore White. Towards the end of the war, Wertenbaker reported from Paris, where he knew people like Ernest Hemingway and Irwin Shaw.
Wertenbaker described the scene in an article for Life (magazine).
After the war, he remained in France, where he continued as both journalist and author Wertenbaker died of colon cancer in 1955.