Emanuel Freedman, William Penn High School class of 1927 and Columbia University graduate, perhaps achieved more as an editor than any other York County alumnus.
Manny Freedman rose through the ranks at The New York Times, including copy editor, deskman for the London bureau, assistant foreign editor, foreign editor and one of four assistant managing editors. As assistant manager editor, he was responsible for personnel, including hiring. He died in 1971.
An Overseas Press Club bio on Freedman credits him with hiring a whole generation of foreign correspondents. As foreign editor, he guided coverage of such events as the Korean conflict, the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Suez crisis of the same year, the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and many other major events.
In his profile of The New York Times "The Kingdom and the Power," (1969), Gay Talese described Freedman, a member of the York High Hall of Fame:
