AP Author

Claude A. Jagger '24 is one of the Associated Press correspondents who collaborated with Oliver Gramling in writing Free Men Are Fighting, a dramatic narrative of World War II to be published in late October. Described by Author Gramling as "a people's book on a people's war," Free Men AreFighting tells what AP correspondents have seen with their own eyes. Claude Jagger is financial Editor of the Associ- ated Press. He reported final gasps of the bull market of 1928-29, and was among the outstanding American cor- respondents at the world economic conference in London in 1933. His stories about business and finance have made headlines through the nation. He was educated at Dartmouth and Co- lumbia. After experience on several New England papers, he left the Provi-dence Evening Bulletin to join the AP in 1927.