Christopher Wren '57

Christopher Wren '57 (shown as a correspondent in Vietnam) has been named Washington editor of Look Magazine. During his ten years with the magazine he has established himself as one of the country's top journalists. Especially notable was his May 1969 report, "Greece: Government by Torture," the first American disclosure of the military junta's repression, which won him an Overseas Press Club Award for the best magazine reporting from abroad.

One of his first assignments upon joining Look in 1961 was reporting on the integration of the University of Mississippi, which won the magazine a special citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Other assignments have taken him to Vietnam four times and to Cambodia once. In 1969 he became the first American reporter permitted to live with the Popular Front guerillas in the Middles' East.

Wren did graduate work in Russian at the University of Edinburgh after getting his Dartmouth degree magna cum laude, and later he received a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1961. The Russian came in handy when Look sent him to the U.S.S.R. in 1967 to prepare material for its issue on Russia. Later that year he received a Ford Foundation fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese at Stanford, and in 1968 he worked as assistant press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primaries.

Wren is married to the former Jaqueline Marshall Braxton. With Look colleague Jack Shepherd he has co-authored three books, Quotations from Chairman LBJ,Poor Richard's Almanack, and The SuperSummer of Jamie McBride, reviewed in last month's issue.