[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6] [Senate] [Pages 8080-8081] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]TRIBUTE TO MARVIN STONE Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President. U.S. News and World Report, in speaking of the death of Marvin Stone, spoke of one man's ``superior contribution''. Marvin Stone contributed more than should be expected of someone who had had a dozen life times and far more than anyone could have expected in a span of seventy-six years. Marvin Stone, born in Burlington, VT, served in the Pacific in World War II and then went on to become one of the most respected journalists in America. My wife, Marcelle, and I have been privileged to know Marvin and his wonderful wife, Terry. I think with fondness not only of times together with them, Marvin's sister, Marilyn Greenfield, and the many friends in Burlington, but also evenings with those far reaching conversations at their home in the Washington area. Marvin took the time to call me when I was a brand new Senator, even though he probably was at first curious about the oddity of a Democrat from Vermont. We became close friends and throughout two decades I called upon him for advice and insight. I knew the advice would come, never tinged with partisanship but underlined with a great sense of history and his overwhelming integrity. I can only imagine the void this leaves in the life of Terry, his wife of fifty years, of Jamie and Stacey and Torren and all his family. He also leaves a great void in our country. Marvin's legacy, though, is also one of example, and those, especially in the field of journalism, who follow that example, can also seek the respect and the honor that he earned. I ask that the US News World Report article be printed in the Record as well as the obituary in the Washington Post. [From the U.S. News & World Report, May 15, 2000] One Man's ``Superior Contribution'' Journalist Marvin L. Stone, who died of cancer last week at 76, played a transforming role a generation ago as the editor of U.S. News & World Report. In his decade of leadership, from 1976 to 1985, Stone was responsible for U.S. New's editorial shift toward the center from the more conservative views held by its founder, David Lawrence. Stone expanded the magazine's coverage beyond its traditional emphasis on politics and business to include social, cultural, and educational issues. He introduced four- color photography and changed the character of the editorial staff by recruiting younger journalists, women, and minority reporters. ``Ours is a magazine devoted to a singular ideal: to report, clarify, interpret, and project the news--to put people and events in perspective as objectively as humanly possible,'' Stone once told a national convention of Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society, ``Put another way: to provide information people can rely on, find useful, can act upon.'' Born and raised in Vermont, Stone served in World War II as an attack boat officer in [[Page 8081]] the Pacific. He began his 40-year journalism career as a police reporter for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. As an International News Service correspondent based in Tokyo, Vienna, Paris, and London, he covered the Korean War and the French Indochina War and broke the news that the Soviet Union had developed a hydrogen bomb. To the moon. In 1961, a year after he joined U.S. News, Stone covered the construction of the Berlin Wall. Later in the 1960's, he reported on topics as varied as coal mining in Kentucky and space shots to the moon. He authored the Doubleday Science Series book Man in Space. When Mortimer B. Zuckerman bought U.S. News in 1984, Stone was holding two positions, editor of the magazine and chairman of its parent company. After what we termed six ``amicable'' months with Zuckerman, he resigned to become deputy director of the United States Information Agency, a position he held for four years. From 1989 to 1995, he was the founding president and chairman of the International Media Fund, an organization that encouraged a free press in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Zuckerman, chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News, said, ``Marvin Stone was one of the giants of post-World War II journalism. His talent as a reporter and an editor brought him one of the great positions of journalism as the editor of U.S. News & World Report. He extended his career by outstanding service in the public arena. He was a great friend and a great colleague. He shall be missed by all who benefited from his wisdom and insight.'' In 1985, Ronald Reagan hailed Stone's 25 years with U.S. News as a ``superior contribution'' to American journalism. Said the president: ``You helped make the world's events and our challenges just a little more understandable.'' [From the Washington Post, May 3, 2000] Marvin L. Stone Dies at 76; U.S. News Editor Marvin L. Stone, 76, who covered definitive Cold War moments such as the fall of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam and the rise of the Berlin Wall before he took the top editing job at U.S. News & World Report in 1976 and became deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency in 1986, died of cancer May 1 at his home in Falls Church. Mr. Stone joined the weekly news magazine in 1960 and advanced to executive editor in 1973. He became the equivalent of editor in chief in 1976, and over the next nine years, he propelled the magazine away from some of its conservative editorial positions and added cultural features and colorful layouts. He resigned in 1985, shortly after Mortimer B. Zuckerman purchased the publication. Among the changes Mr. Stone oversaw during his years at the magazine were the addition of full-color photographs and service stories about medical, scientific and social trends. Mr. Stone, who considered himself conservative, told The Washington Post in 1982 that he viewed his impact less as a ``revolution'' than an ``evolution.'' Mr. Stone was deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency from 1985 to 1989, followed by six years as president and chairman of the International Media Fund, a Washington- based, government-funded organization encouraging a free press in Eastern Europe. After the fund went defunct in 1995, he spent the next year in Europe on a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship before retiring. Marvin Lawrence Stone was born in Burlington, Vt., and served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He graduated from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He was a police reporter in Huntington before joining the old International News Service wire agency in the 1950s, where his assignments included the Korean War. Mr. Stone was named to the Sigma Delta Chi journalism society's Journalism Hall of Fame in 1990. He was a past adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His memberships included Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, the Cosmos Club and the Military Order of the Caribao. He was the author of ``Man in Space,'' a 1974 booklet that was part of a Doubleday science series. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Sydell ``Terry'' Stone of Falls Church; two daughters, Jamie Faith Stone of Falls Church and Stacey Hope Goodrich of West Melbourne, Fla.; a son, Torren M. Stone of Falls Church; a sister; and three grandchildren. ____________________