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wtiny icws rnowwir-Newporter Wins Nieman Fellowshipy,to3dd. Dean Brelis, 33, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christos Brel is of 15 Newton Ct, is among the 11 newsmen who have been awarded Nieman Fel-lowships for study at Harvard University in 1957-58. -The group will go to Harvard on leave of absence from their jobs, to pursue studies of their own choice for their background for journalism. * The fellowships were established 20 years ago under the will of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of die Milwaukee Journal, and are perhaps the highest-prized grantsin the field of journalism.Brelis, a graduate of Rogers High School in 1941* entered the U. S. Air Corps in 1942. He later transferred to the infantry and received a field commission as second lieutenant in Burma,He tf'as graduated from Harvard College in 1949, having served as undergraduate correspondeht forthe Boston Globe, and then spent five years with Time—Life, much of it abroad. For the past twb years, he has been with CBS as a news writer and producer of TV shows. As a Nieman Fellow, he plans to study the Russian language and Russian-Chinese relations-m11:L2,ofLn7.s.inin:hHI?r3fneki,.5
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Mon, Jul 29, 1957
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