Bliss Before CBS
Bliss' father was a missionary doctor who spent much of his life in China. Bliss was born in China, in Fuzhou, and lived in China until he was nine.
In 1935 Bliss graduated from Yale University and landed his first job at a small Ohio newspaper, The Bucyrus. The pay, $6 per week but he was able to earn an extra $1.50 per week as a stringer for the Toledo Blade. The experience paid off and 1936 found him working at a Scripps Howard newspaper, Columbus Citizen, in Columbus, Ohio.
His first beat at the Citizen included the state prison. After he witnessed his first execution he submitted an unsolicited editorial opposing the death penalty. He set the editorial on his editor's desk and the next day it was published as the paper's lead editorial. He worked at the Citizen until 1942. While there he worked as a reporter, state editor, book and film reviewer and columnist.
Away from journalism Bliss was married in 1940, to Lois.
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