New Editor for 'Catholic Herald'

MR. DESMOND ALBROW, 41, at present News Editor and Night Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, has been appointed Editor of the CATHOLIC HERALD. He will take up his new post later in the year. He succeeds Mr. Desmond Fisher who resigned earlier this year. Educated at St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford, and Keblc College, Oxford, Mr. Albrow started his journalistic career on the Yorkshire Observer after war service in the Royal Navy. He then spent five years on the editorial staff of the Manchester Guard tan before joining the Daily Telegraph early in 1956. When the Sunday Telegraph was launched in 1961, Mr. Albrow moved over to the new paper, where he successively held the posts of Assistant News Editor, Chief Sub-editor, News Editor and Night Editor. He is married with four children and lives at Hampton Hill, near Hampton Court. His wife is the sister of Elizabeth Jennings, the poet and critic. Although he has been called by The Guardian "a journalist of unimpeachable Roman obedience", Mr. Albrow said this week that he preferred to think of himself as "a democratic Catholic with an inquiring mind. "Like most journalists", he added. "I have a fair stockpile of hand grenades and I shall throw a few of them as occasion arises. They will be aimed, unimpeachably of course, at the required targets — whether Left, Right or Centre."