Melinda Elisabeth Reed Kennett Farrar Potter Love (August 17, 1924 – May 13, 2013) was an American journalist for The New York Times.
[2][3] He attended John Burroughs School and Princeton University, receiving an Associate in Arts degree,[4] before serving (1943-1946)[5] as a pilot in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.
[13][14][15][16] In 1954, when he was based in Cairo,[17] Love wrote front-page articles about the discovery of a 50-foot boat that had been intended to convey the spirit of the pharaoh Cheops to the underworld.
[8][18][19][20][21][22][23] Between 1963 and 1964, Love served as a Peace Corps Planner-Evaluator in Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and in training centers in the United States.
[25] In 1984, Love denied helping the CIA with the 1953 Iran coup, while working for The New York Times, suing Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny,[26][27][28][29][30][31] until, at least, 1993.
District Judge Mukasey found that Love's manuscript "suggested strongly that he may have played a role" in the coup.
[59] In 1946, Love married Marie Felicité Pratt,[3] and in 1973, Melinda Elisabeth Reed,[60] and his partner in his final decades was Blair Seagram.