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1945 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

front row, left to right: H. Pollard, A. Howe, J. Pulitzer, N. Butler, S. Perry, K. Cooper; back row, left to right: S. Brown, F. Kent, A. Krock, C. Ackerman, R. Choate, R. Roberts, W. Mathews (absent from photo: J. Knight, W. Harrison)

Board Lander Sub Title
Frank R. Kent, chair; William O. Trapp, secretary pro-tem

Nicholas Murray Butler

Job title
president
First name
Nicholas Murray
Last name
Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862-December 7, 1947) was an educator and university president; an adviser to seven presidents and friend of statesmen in foreign nations; recipient of decorations from fifteen foreign governments and of honorary degrees from thirty-seven colleges and universities; a member of more than fifty learned societies and twenty clubs; the author of a small library of books, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; an international traveler who crossed the Atlantic at least a hundred times; a national leader of the Republican Party; an advocate o

Employer
Columbia University
Photo
Nicholas Murray Butler
Ordering weight
1

Sevellon Brown

Job title
editor
First name
Sevellon
Last name
Brown

(Courtesy of United Press International.)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sevellon Brown III, veteran Washington correspondent and reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, died Wednesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 70,

Brown worked at the Journal-Bulletin from 1939 to 1968 when he retired because of ill health.

He was born in Washington on April 23, 1913, the son of Sevellon and Elizabeth Barry Brown.

Employer
The Providence Journal
Ordering weight
1

Carl W. Ackerman

Job title
dean, Graduate School of Journalism
First name
Carl W.
Last name
Ackerman

(Courtesy of the Columbia University Libraries)

Carl William Ackerman (1890-1970), Columbia University B. Litt. 1913, was Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism from 1931 to 1956. He spent from 1960 to 1962 researching and writing a biography (unpublished) of Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, 1883-1962, the Swedish-American industrialist and financier.

Employer
Columbia University
Ordering weight
1

James B. Reston

Citation
For his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks security conference.
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Publication
The New York Times

Joe Rosenthal

Citation
For his photograph of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
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Categories: Photography
Publication
Associated Press