The Press: In Memoriam

For ten of 17 U.S. correspondents listed as killed in World War II the U.S. Maritime Commission last week announced a new kind of recognition. Within the next few months, Liberty ships will be named for:

United Pressman Webb Miller, the New York Herald Tribune's Ralph Barnes and Ben Robertson, Associated Pressmen Edward Crockett and Ben Miller, the New York Times's Byron Darnton, International News Service's Jack Singer, Acme Newspictures' Carl Thusgaard, Mutual Broadcasting System's Frank Cuhel, TIME'S Melville Jacoby.

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