Newspaperman: this one word was all Lucius W. Nieman wanted said of his noted career as founder and editor of one of the country's leading daily newspapers, the Milwaukee Journal. A man who prized brevity, accuracy, and fairness, Nieman helped to elevate the standards of journalism not only during his lifetime but also through the present day. Under the terms of an endowment made to Harvard University by his widow, the distinguished Nieman Fellowships annually provide working newspapermen with the opportunity to increase their journalistic competence through a year's study in a field of their choice.

Nieman's successor as editor and president of the Milwaukee Journal, Harry J. Grant, described his predecessor in a speech to the Nieman Fellows at Harvard in April 1941: "Lucius William Nieman abhorred pretense and avoided 'guff'--his term for the modern 'bunk.' There was no land of make-believe in his world. He called...