Chester Ludington Morrison was born in Philadelphia on March 25, 1900. During World War I. he served in the Navy and received the Navy Cross. After the war, Morrison attended Rutgers University and graduated in 1923.
He began his reporting career in 1923 with the Associated Press and various New York City newspapers. After working for the Boston Herald and other papers, Morrison joined Marshall Field's newly founded newspaper, the Chicago Sun, just prior to World War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Morrison was sent by the Sun to the Near East where he was attached as a reporter to the British Eighth Army. During the war he also reported for Coronet magazine, and broadcasted for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). He spent the last year of World War II in England reporting on the European theatre.
After returning to the United States in early 1946, Morrison worked for Coronet for a few months and then for the Boston Herald for three years. From 1949 to 1951 he was on the staff of Flair magazine (a Cowles magazine venture). After Flair folded, Morrison became a senior editor for Look and remained in that position until his retirement in early 1966.
Chester Morrison died on June 21, 1966 and is survived by his widow, Freda Epstein Grey Morrison.
