[1][2] Born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, he graduated in 1939 from Colby College and served in Europe with the United States Army during World War II.
[1][2] Sargent worked at The Portland Press Herald in Maine and The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, before becoming a longtime editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune.
[1][2] He was a Nieman Fellow in 1951, studying local government.
In 1978, he was appointed national editorial writer for Hearst Newspapers.
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