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wrote, if he isn’t happy among Americans.
Columnist and Author
Crane and his wife, both collectors of rare and antique books, found or bought much of their collection while they lived in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They bought dozens of old books from shops in London, Paris and Berlin, and found some volumes near libraries which apparently discarded them.
“Every time we found old books,” he recalled, “we’d buy them.”
Crane worked in Europe as a foreign correspondent, dispatching a column five times weekly to some 40 newspapers, many of them in Virginia.
In his column, he interviewed world leaders and American officials, and tried to inform readers of what he called a Soviet threat to U.S. interests larger than Americans realized.
“I wrote so that the communists wouldn’t take over Western Europe,” he said. “So far, we’ve succeeded.”
Crane stopped writing his column in 1959, saying he “got tired of it.” When the column ended, so did his newspaper career, which began when he was named news editor at the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in his native Indiana at age 21.
He got that job soon after graduating from Northwestern University with a B.A. in American history. Crane continued his education at Harvard, earning a Masters’ degree and a Ph.D. in economics. One of his theses involved an economic study of U.S. avi
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