Excerpt from the 1970 Dateline for The Lowell Thomas Award for 1969:
CLASS 6 ALEXANDER
KENDRICK
Best radio interpretation of foreign affairs
Copy-boy, reporter, columnist, Nieman Fellow, Washington newsman and foreign correspondent–there isn’t much Alexander Kendrick hasn’t done in print of journalism. And, as creator if a recent best seller, he has become an author as well.
Starting as copy-boy with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kendrick worked his way through almost every job on the editorial side during his 17 years on the staff, with time out for a Nieman fellowship as well. It was as correspondent in Moscow for the Inquirer in 1943that he covered the Soviet advance into Poland and delivered one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Lublin death camp.
Reassigned to Washington, Kendrick joined the Chicago Sun and returned to Europe for a short postwar stint with that newspaper. He joined CBS news as Vienna correspondent in 1948. Two years later he moved to Washington, and in 1951 he returned to Vienna to report on the European satellite nations. He transferred to London in 1954 and became chief of the CBS London Bureau in 1959.
Among his notable London assignments, were President Eisenhower’s Asia-Africa tour, President Kennedy’s European tour and the great continuing story of British politics and East-West diplomacy from a London perspective. He was also invited back to the U.S. to contribute analysis to CBS’s coverage of the Presidential nominating conventions in 1960 and 1964.
Lately Kendrick has found time to write a book about a fellow journalist and long time personal friend, Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow (Little, Brown 1964).
Currently based in New York, Alexander Kendrick is a regular contributor to “The World Tonight” and is the anchorman of “The World This Week,” where his award-winning radio interpretations of foreign, affairs have been broadcast.
In 1962, Kendrick was the OPC winner in this same category.