Sevellon Brown
Job title
editor
First name
Sevellon
Last name
Brown
Years
(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
Years
(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 He spent from 1960 to 1962 researching and writing a biography (unpublished) of Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, 1883-1962, the Swedish-American industrialist and financier.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
Edward A. Harris
Citation
For his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy.
Tags:
1946
Publication
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Homer William Bigart
Citation
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre.
Tags:
1946
Publication
New York Herald Tribune