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George S. Johns

Job title
editor
First name
George S.
Last name
Johns
Years
Employer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ordering weight
1

Palmer Hoyt

Job title
editor and publisher
First name
Palmer
Last name
Hoyt
Years
Employer
The Denver Post
Ordering weight
1

Frank D. Fackenthal

Job title
Acting President
First name
Frank D.
Last name
Fackenthal
Years

By Sean Murphy

Employer
Columbia University
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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 He spent from 1960 to 1962 researching and writing a biography (unpublished) of Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, 1883-1962, the Swedish-American industrialist and financier.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

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Citation
For its unswerving adherence to the public and professional ideals of its founder and its constructive leadership in the field of American journalism.
Tags: 1947
Publication
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eddy Gilmore

Citation
For his correspondence from Moscow in 1946.
Tags: 1947
Publication
Associated Press