Background
Frye, William was born on January 9, 1908 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Son of William Fenner and Hattie Belle (Booth) Frye.
Frye, William was born on January 9, 1908 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Son of William Fenner and Hattie Belle (Booth) Frye.
Graduate Alabama Military Institute, Anniston, 1925. Student Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, January 1928-November 1929.
Reporter Gadsden (Alabama) Times, 1926-1927, Birmingham News and Birmingham Post, 1927, Nashville Tennessean, 1930-1931. With Associated Press, 1931-1945, night editor, Nashville, 1931-1933, various assignments in Washington, 1933-1942, charge War Department coverage, 1942-1944, war correspondent, East.T.O., 1944, with British 2d Army, 1945, diplomatic correspondent, Paris, 1945. Special consultant to Secretary of War, 1946, to Secretary of Defense, 1947.
Deputy director public information, Office Secretary Defense, 1948.
Assistant to secretary of defense and director public information, Department Defense, 1949-1950. Chief, information section, European Coordinating Committee, also attache, American Embassy, London, 1950-1951.
Special correspondent in Europe, National Broadcasting Company, 1951-1953. Assistant director conference Interparliamentary Union, Washington, 1953.
Consultant National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1954.
Assistant editor Army-Navy-Air Force Register, and military editor Aeronautical Digest, 1954-1955. Deputy director, department mass communication. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris.
1955-1956, director information New York office, 1957-1958.
Director information National Council Churches, 1959-1960.
Member Beta Theta Pi. Clubs: National Press (Washington).
Married Mary Atkinson, May 9, 1931. Children: Alice Rowena (Madame Lucien Cohen), William Fenner, Henry Booth.