Saul Carson, Veteran Newsman, JTA Correspondent at Un, Dies at 76

Saul Carson, veteran New York and Philadelphia newsman and United Nations correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, died here last night after a brief illness. He was 76. Mr. Carson, who was born in Russia, was the JTA’s UN correspondent and staff reporter from 1953 until his retirement two years ago. A founder of the Philadelphia Newspaper Guild in the 1930’s, he came to New York with the closing of the Philadelphia Public Ledger where he was labor editor. In New York, he served on the staff of the New York Journal American, the newspaper PM, and was a contributing editor to time magazine. He was a member of the radio-TV staff of Variety from 1944-1947, an executive editor of Billboard magazine from 1950-1954, and was among the country’s first radio-TV columnists for the New Republic. Mr. Carson also served as publicity director of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities and the Association of Jewish Social Workers. He was the author of numerous magazine articles and of two books, “Of Human Freedom” and “Return to the Root.” He and his wife, the former Bettina Dayna, moved from New York City several months ago to Winter Park, Fla.