(Courtesy of The New York Times)
Turner Catledge, former executive editor of The New York Times, died at home in New Orleans yesterday of a long illness after a stroke. He was 82 years old.
In a journalism career that spanned five decades, Mr. Catledge began as a reporter covering floods and murders, went on to the White House and national politics and for 17 years oversaw the work of several hundred reporters and editors.
(Courtesy of Mississippi Writers & Musicians)
By Jennifer Phillips (SHS)
“The South is so often damned for social backwardness, for reaction entrenched in smugness and lethargy, that it is a pleasure to introduce a young Southerner who represents a totally different school of thought and action.” Saturday Evening Post Feb.23, 1946, on Hodding Carter’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize
(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.