Papers, 1938-1988.

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Papers, 1938-1988.

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Consists of: correspondence, 1942-1988, with literary agents, journals, etc., concerning Meyer's writings; copies of his press releases relating to sports, particularly Indiana high school basketball, prior to his European assignment; copies of his wartime dispatches while with Patton and later Bradley's armies; and some of the stories he sent from Rome and London after the war. Also present is a notebook of releases written for the Hughes Aircraft Company, 1959-1965, arranged by broad subject; studies and reports relating to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the mid-1970s; and the manuscript for Meyer's volume of short stories Autumn Leaves (New York: Rosen, 1985). Five scrapbooks, 1938-1939, and several photographs from the war period complete the collection.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Meyer, Robert Louis

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Journalist. Meyer was born in 1918. He graduated from Indiana University and in 1941 he joined United Press working in Chicago, Indianapolis, and New York before accepting assignment as a war correspondent. Upon his return to the United States, he worked for CBS radio and television and was a free-lance writer. He served a stint as press attache to the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, but returned to California to become a public relations executive in the aerospace industry. He ...