Samuel Gardner Welles

Samuel Gardner Welles AKA "Sam Welles" (1913-1981) was an American journalist for TIME magazine, author of Profile of Europe, and connected Whittaker Chambers to Raymond E. Murphy, whose investigation helped lead to Alger Hiss’s departure from the State Department.[1][2][3][4]

Background

Samuel Gardner Welles was born in 1913.[2] According to Chambers, "Samuel Gardner Welles... was the son of a reverend Episcopal clergyman (died 1940[5]) and brother of bishop."[4] His parents were Samuel Gardner Welles and Mabel De Geer of Cincinnati, Ohio; his brother was Edward Randolph Welles (1907-1991).[6][7] In 1935, he graduated from Princeton University[8] and was a Rhodes Scholar.[9]

Career

By the late 1930s, Welles was part of a group of young writers, many of them Herald Tribune employees and led by Isabel Paterson.[10]

During World War II, Welles left TIME and joined the United States Department of State. In 1942, Welles put special investigator Raymond E. Murphy in touch with his TIME colleague Whittaker Chambers.[11] (Murphy's investigations led to a report against Alger Hiss, who subsequently left State.) By 1944, Welles was serving as special assistant to H.E. John Gilbert Winant, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom.[12]

Welles was a career journalist at TIME and LIFE.[13] In 1947, Welles interviewed Polish Prince Prince Christopher Radziwill (Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł)[14] while he was an associate editor and foreign news writer, based in Europe.[15] In 1949, Welles visited Burma, which he described as "most distressful country that ever I have seen."[16] In 1954, he was Chicago bureau chief for TIME, during which period he interviewed the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher.[17] In 1959, he was a senior editor at LIFE.[18]

Personal life and death

Welles married Margery Miller; they had a daughter and two sons.[13]

Samuel Gardner Welles aged 67 or 68 died in 1981.[2][3]

Works

While stationed in Europe for TIME, Welles wrote Profile of Europe, noted by Kirkus Reviews for its "informed viewpoints." More than half the book is on the USSR.[19][20]

  • Profile of Europe (1948)
  • "Commencement addresses, Conduct of life," LIFE (1952)[21]

References
  1. The American Oxonian. American Association of Rhodes Scholars. 1981. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  2. Welles, Sam (1948). Profile of Europe. Harper. LCCN 48008420.
  3. "Welles, Samuel Gardner (1913?-1981)". UNC University Libraries. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  4. Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. Random House. pp. 483. ISBN 9780895269157. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  5. The Churchman. Churchman Company. 1941. p. 33. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  6. "Edward Randolph Welles (1907-1991), Bishop of West Missouri". National Portrait Gallery. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  7. "An Oklahoma Outlaw Speaks for Women's Rights". Deboissiere. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  8. "Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 49". Princeton University. 13 September 2016. p. 31. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  9. Schaeper, Thomas J.; Schaeper, Kathleen (2010). Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite. Berghahn Books. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  10. Cox, Stephen (2004). The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America. New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA: Transaction Publishers. pp. 339–340. ISBN 978-0-7658-0241-5.
  11. Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. pp. 565 (fn1). ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
  12. Baker, Richard Brown (6 November 2015). The Year Of The Buzz Bomb; A Journal Of London, 1944. Pickle Partners Publishin. p. 33. ISBN 9781786252616. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  13. "Jonathan Sprague Welles". San Angelo Standard Times. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  14. "Foreign News: There'll Always be a Radziwill". TIME. 14 July 1947. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  15. "A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 17, 1947". TIME. 17 November 1947. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  16. "BURMA: The Trouble with Us..." TIME. 7 November 1949. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  17. "A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 6, 1954". TIME. 7 September 1954. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  18. "Live Up to the Best in You". LIFE. 22 June 1959. p. 42. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  19. "Profile of Europe". Kirkus Reviews. 15 September 1948. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  20. Woolbert, Robert Gale (January 1949). "Profile of Europe". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  21. Welles, Sam (22 June 1952). Commencement addresses, Conduct of life. LIFE magazine. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
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