| Sources |
- [S11] U. S. Census records.
1950 age 30 at New York NY w Margret. Writer, magazine.
- [S5926] New York State, Birth Index.
Niagara, NY
- [S8109] Obituary Press and Sun-Bulletin, October 20, 2012.
Binghamton-born journalist Robert Manning dies
Former Press reporter lived in Massachusetts
Courtesy of The Boston Globe
Robert Joseph Manning, who started his journalism career at the Binghamton Press and later served as editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1966 to 1980, died Sept. 28 in Boston. He was 92.
The cause of death was lymphoma, his wife, Theresa, said. For many years a Boston resident, Manning lived in South Dartmouth, Mass.
Before joining The Atlantic Monthly, Manning had worked for the Associated Press, United Press, Time magazine, The New York Herald Tribune, and the U.S. State Department.
After leaving the Atlantic, he became part owner of the Boston Publishing Co. and oversaw its 25-volume series, "The Vietnam Experience."
Manning was born in Binghamton, the son of Joseph Manning and Agnes (Brown) Manning. As a senior in high school, he entered the offices of The Binghamton Press looking for work in the pressroom. Instead, he was offered the job of a copy boy who had been fired a few minutes earlier.
"I was enthralled," Manning wrote in his 1992 memoir, "The Swamp Root Chronicle." "The large Press city room smelled of gluepots, pipe tobacco, cigarette and cigar smoke and there was also a whiff in the air of spent scotch or bourbon whiskey. Sounds as bright to me as bird calls came from the clattering of the typewriters and the clattering of the teletypes, and there arose occasionally, as if uttered by an angry crow, the sharp cry of "Boy!" or "Copy!"
Manning was promoted to reporter, and in 1942 joined the Associated Press bureau in Buffalo. His career was interrupted by Army service in 1943, but within a year nearsightedness led to an honorable discharge. He then joined the UP Washington bureau covering the White House and State Department.
Manning covered an array of stories from Elliot Roosevelt's wedding plans to Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. He was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard during the 1945-46 academic year.
After Harvard, he served as UP's United Nations correspondent and joined Time magazine in 1949.
Mr. Manning wrote and edited for the magazine's National Affairs and Foreign News sections, with time out in 1952 to work for the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson.
He wrote Time's cover story on Ernest Hemingway after enjoying a memorable stay with the Nobel Prize-winning author at his Cuban home in 1954.
Mr. Manning served as Time-Life's London bureau chief from 1958-61 before becoming Sunday editor of The New York Herald Tribune. A year later, he became assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the Kennedy administration.
After a breaking-in period as executive editor, he became the 10th editor in chief of the Atlantic, in 1966.
His first wife, Margaret (Raymond) Manning, died in 1984. Mr. Manning married Theresa M. Slomkowski in 1987.
He also leaves two sons, Brian, of Paris, and Robert of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and four grandchildren. His son, Richard, died in 2004.
- [S211] Findagrave.com entry.
Burial Details Unknown
- [S2972] Cook County Illinois Marriages Index.
|
1919 - 2012 (92 years)
[2]