Stephen Laird, Foreign Correspondent

PARIS - Stephen Laird, a longtime foreign correspondent and editor with Time magazine, Fortune, Newsweek and other publications, died last week in a Chartres hospital. He was 74.

Laird died last Thursday of Alzheimer's disease and was cremated yesterday, according to his daughter, Maxime.

Laird was born Aug. 1, 1915, in Emmaus, Penn. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1936, then took a job as a reporter for the Chester, Pa., Times.

From there, Laird moved to Fortune and later to Time and Life magazines where he served in Washington, Japan, Russia and Germany. He covered World War II for Time and was its London bureau chief. In 1946, Laird became a foreign correspondent for CBS and worked in Paris and Berlin.

He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Cummins, a son, Christopher, and his daughter.