PHILIP K. CROWE DIES; ENVOY TO 4 COUNTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100035-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: October 18, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON STAR (GREIN LINE)
18 OCTOBER 1976
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Philip,' : Kingsland , Crowe 68' a
R.
financial editor for the New
York Evening Post and next wnrkr d-
wildlife, t
Crowe,"a'nativerof New=Yorkk-City,' /attended the rginia.
University of Vi
In 1933, he became a reporter and as
was''a leader 6 the '1960s of. Wildlife.,
Missions?_:to 'the-'Near- East-:South
America, the Far East,'Middle'East'
Central America :'and- South AfricaL.
, He also wrote a number of'books'on"
A:''longtime_director- of ::the. World
Wildlife Fund and. the -African Wild--
life''Leadership'-Foundation "Crow ,
we
when ' he retired `-from. - the='foreign'
service:. From.' 1957 to? 1959'he ':was
1973 and to Denmark in 1974 and 1975--.
now., Sr! Lanka; "from' 1953_ to.. 1956,.
ambassador;to. South-.Africa`from
1959 to:.1961' ,' to Norway from 1969 to'
Crowe was ambassador'to Ceylon; `
Saturday afteir'a'heart'"attack at his
home in Easton,, Md:? "'
writer and conservationist who was;
to the Chinese Cmunists -US ter. Clara
.He was in:Nanking when that city fell ,a er. hSusan..Norregaard,', and 'thei
Burma-India: theater?during the' wary, , Yfeffermann of Chevy' Chase,. Phil=:
and afterward was s ecial?re resen- iippa. Neilson of Mount Kisco N
-.gic=. Services,, a~-predecessor-6f 'the r, ' Crowe s marriage to his first wife
fnrmv T.?e,.., n..Y...-' --,
partment... m eylon, .. Sporting ..Jour
neys," ?',The. Empty
During World War._ .II Crowe
served in Wildlife'1 ''- the World
the ArmyAir Last Stand and ' trld;"
Forces but
was?assigned.to the':Office_of,:Strate oflifensEream
r >. t ;
Life magazine and also an'employe of, : Pu fished in 1953. Later-
Fortune .magazine's::advertising. de- books include Diversions of a-Dip
lo.
mat C
g. game he, also was director, of the _~- His':book. `Sportr is Where' You:',
travel.advertisement:department-for-.'"Find It"" w bl'
fore spending several years i's "an ex= i,rowe's awards include the Bronie''
plorer and hunter--of bi Star. and decorations'of'the Republic'.,,"'
g-game-in,h-of-China France,' Portugal; and Nor= r'
then-French7indo-China. _ While hunt- vra
PHILIP K. CROWE '
Writer. conservationist
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