'''Macdonald Hastings''' (1909–October_4, 1982), Journalist and War_correspondent.
Douglas Edward Macdonald Hastings (known as Macdonald Hastings) was born in London, England and was educated at Stonyhurst_College Roman_Catholic Jesuit school in Lancashire. He became war correspondent for ''Picture_Post'' during the Second_World_War, sending despatches from north-west Europe. He married Anne Scott-James, distinguished Columnist and was father of of Sir Max Hastings, journalist and Newspaper_editor.
Hastings was an occasional contributor of fiction to ''Lilliput'', the literary magazine, under the pseudonym of ''Lemuel Gulliver''. He was editor of the ''Strand_Magazine'' between 1946 and 1950, after which he was recruited by Rev Marcus Morris to write for a new boys' Comic, ''The_Eagle'', which he did from 1951, filing reports from far-flung parts of the world under the title of ''Eagle Special Correspondent''. He was also co-founder and editor of the fortnightly ''Country Fair'' magazine.
He also wrote around thirty books, on subjects such as game shooting, was author of a series of Detective_novels and was to appear on Television as a weekly correspondent on the BBC programme ''Tonight'' in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He died at his home in Basingstoke in 1982.
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