RECEIVED CITY COUNCIL DlViSiUr.
2013 JAN 31 PM 2=56
TRIBUTE TO DANIEL J. EDELMAN
OFFICE OF THE
WHEREAS, In His Infinite Wisdom, Almighty God lia£$pjft
WHEREAS, Daniel J. Edelman started life in New York City on July 3, 1920. He evinced an early interest in writing. When he was 11, he started a community newspaper with a friend. He was sports editor of his high school newspaper and, in 1940, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York's Columbia College, earning a Master's degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism the following year; and
WHEREAS, Daniel J. Edelman was briefly employed as sports editor and reporter for a newspaper in Poughkecpsie, New York before being drafted into the Army during World War IT. He was assigned to the Intelligence Unit of the 100th Infantry Division, as a part of the Division's PR operation. While sailing on the troop transport to the European Theatre, he produced a daily newspaper for his fellow soldiers, reporting on the latest war developments gleaned from listening to the ship's radio. When he arrived, he was posted to the Fifth Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company, a psychological warfare unit, and ordered to join the 12th U.S. Army Group in Verdun where his job was to write an analysis of German propaganda. He earned a commission in Germany and finished his tour of duty in Berlin with the U.S. Army Infonnation Control Division; and
WHEREAS, Daniel J. Edelman returned to New York City where he took a job as news writer for the Columbia Broadcasting System. He then got his start in the public relations business when he was employed as a publicist for Musi craft Records that represented many of that era's great recording artists such as Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Artie Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie and Mel Tonne; and
WHEREAS, It was Edelman's contact with Tonne's r...
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