After he retired in 1995, he became Dean of Lynn University's School of International Communication in Boca Raton, Florida.
After he retired in 1995, he became dean of Lynn University's School of International Communication in Boca Raton, Florida.
Father of Jeffrey, Daniel and Jennifer.
Son of Ukrainian immigrants.
He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
He was an obituary writer for the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island.
He served the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II.
He studied at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.
He is survived by his son, Daniel Levine, of Wilmette, Illinois; Jeffrey C.B. Levine of Chicago, Illinois; and a daughter Jennifer J. Levine of Chevy Chase, Maryland; a sister Eva Levine Schaffer of Walnut Creek, California; and three grandchildren.
He was the first American journalist to be accredited in the former Soviet Union from 1955 to 1959 for NBC News.
He was assigned as NBC's bureau chief in Rome, Italy from 1959 to 1971 where he covered the erection of the Berlin Wall and Vatican II Ecumenical Council.