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- July 19, 1993: Died:Harrison Salisbury
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- July 19, 1993 Whose Little Girl Is This?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <p> DIED. HARRISON SALISBURY, 84, journalist and author; en route
- to his home in Taconic, Connecticut. Journalism, with its manic
- pursuit of the immediate, and history, with its eye on the ultimate,
- are importantly distinct crafts, yet Salisbury excelled at both.
- He wrote elegant historical accounts of epic 20th century struggles,
- such as The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad and The Long March:
- The Untold Story. At the same time, Salisbury made his mark
- as an editor and reporter at the New York Times, winning a Pulitzer
- Prize in 1955 for "Russia Re-viewed," a pioneering series on
- Stalinist enormities; directing the paper's coverage of events
- such as the assassination of JFK; and serving as the first editor
- of the Op-Ed page, which in both its form and substance became
- a singularly influential national forum.
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