New Bureau Chief
John L. Steele '39, White House correspondent for Time since 1955, has been appointed chief of Time-Life's Washington bureau, succeeding the late James McConaughy, who was killed in the recent jet tanker plane crash at Westover Air Force Base. Steele began his journalistic career immediately after graduation, breaking in as a police beat reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau. He then joined the United Press in Chicago and was soon advanced to its Washington Bureau where he was UP's Congressional and political correspondent. In 1953 he joined Time as Capitol Hill correspondent.
During the war Steele served with the U. S. Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant; and in 1951-52 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, specializing in American history and foreign policy.
Time-Life Editor-in-Chief, Henry R. Luce, commented on Steele's appointment: "He assumes his new and heavy responsibilities with the respect and confidence of his colleagues in his own bureau and throughout Time's editorial ranks."
