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Last week young Cy Sulzberger landed one of the best jobs in U.S. reporting: he was made chief foreign correspondent of the New York Times. To Teach this eminence in ten brief years he had successfully overcome the handicaps of youth, competition from the ablest foreign staff possessed by any single U.S. newspaper and, perhaps, his relationship (nephew) to Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger.

Cyrus Lee Sulzberger II, 32, is rawboned, curious, and has a tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times in 1939.

In four years Sulzberger traveled an estimated 100,000 miles through 30 countries, was banned successively from Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Italy for his fascist-needling articles. Italy's Virginio Gayda called him "a creeping tarantula, going from country to country, spreading poison." The Gestapo once arrested him as a British spy. As he gained experience, he was sent to Moscow for six months, then south to cover the Allied push up the Continent. His top stories in the past year have bean interviews with Tito and Mikhailovich.

In Washington last week, Chief Sulzberger had nothing to say about the move that hoisted him suddenly over the heads of such crack, veteran Times correspondents as Herbert L. Matthews (Rome) and Raymond Daniell (London). Against whispers of nepotism stood his record as one of the ablest and most enterprising comers in the foreign field.

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