!McCormick, Anne Elizabeth O╒Hare1882╨1954journalistBorn on May 16, 1882, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, Anne O╒Hare was brought by her parents to America in early childhood. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended the academy and college of St. Mary of the Springs. Sometime before 1916 she married Francis J. McCormick, a businessman. After a time as associate editor of the Catholic Universe Weekly in Cleveland she became a freelance writer, contributing poems and articles to Smart Set, Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines. In 1920 she traveled to Europe and began submitting dispatches to the New York Times. The Times accepted several, and in 1922 she became a regular correspondent. Her reports on political crises and developments, especially the rise of Fascism in Italy and the emergence of Benito Mussolini, established her as one of the most perspicacious observers on the Continent. She traveled widely and frequently and seemed to many colleagues to have an uncanny knack for arriving at the scene of major stories as they were breaking. Leading European figures whom she interviewed, with a keen perception of personality, included Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Sir Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Stalin, Sir Winston Churchill, LÄon Blum, Gustav Stresemann, Eamon de Valera, Eduard Bene_, and Kurt von Schuschnigg. Her book The Hammer and the Scythe: Communist Russia Enters the Second Decade, 1928, was widely praised. McCormick╒s dispatches to the Times at length earned her a regular bylined column called ╥In Europe╙ and later ╥Abroad.╙ In 1936 she became the first woman to sit on the editorial board of the Times, a post that required her to write two unsigned pieces weekly for the paper╒s editorial page. In 1937 she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism when she was chosen for the award for foreign correspondence. In 1939, when her reporting took her to 13 countries in 5 months, she was honored by the National Federation of Press Women, the American Women╒s Association, and the New York Career Tours for Women, which named her ╥Woman of the Year.╙ In 1944 she was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame. In 1946 and 1948 she served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and in 1947 she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Anne McCormick died in New York City on May 29, 1954. Two volumes of her New York Times pieces were later edited by Marion T. Sheehan: The World at Home, 1956, and Vatican Journal, 1921╨1954, 1957. fstyl ` ! ¬ ! 5¬ + 5¬ 7 !I å !I ₧ !I ε !I ≈ !I ∙ !I !I g !I u !I | !I ü !I ┼ 5¬ ╞ !I J !I Ä !I ½ 5¬ ¼ !I ╩ !I ╧ !I n !I s !I ñ !I ▓ !I Γ !I ≤ !I !I
