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Lee Hills

Citation
For his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Automobile Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage.
Tags: 1956
Publication
Detroit Free Press

Louis B. Seltzer

Job title
editor
First name
Louis B.
Last name
Seltzer

SELTZER, LOUIS B. (19 Sept. 1897-2 Apr. 1980), long-time editor of the CLEVELAND PRESS, was born in Cleveland to Chas. Alden and Ella Albers Seltzer, and quit school to work as an office boy at the CLEVELAND LEADER at 12, quickly becoming reporter and writer of a Sunday column, but being fired 2 years later.

A year later, Seltzer was a police reporter for the Cleveland Press, in 1916 being named city editor, but, feeling his lack of experience, voluntarily resigned after 3 months, becoming political editor.

Employer
Cleveland Press
Photo
Ordering weight
1

Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (III)

Job title
president and publisher
First name
Joseph Jr. (III)
Last name
Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Is Dead at 80; Publisher Was Avid Art Collector

by DENNIS HEVESI

Published: Thursday, May 27, 1993

Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Pulitzer Publishing Company and owner of one of the world's finest collections of modern art, died yesterday at his home in the Central West End of St. Louis. He was 80.

Employer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ordering weight
0 (Chair)

Stuart H. Perry

Job title
editor and publisher
First name
Stuart H.
Last name
Perry

Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957) was a newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites. He made extensive collections of meteorites and donated many specimens to the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1940, Perry became an Honorary Associate in Mineralogy, USNM, a title he held until his death.

Employer
The Adrian (Mich.) Telegram
Ordering weight
1

Paul Miller

Job title
president/chairman of the board
First name
Paul
Last name
Miller
Location
Rochester, NY

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Paul Miller, 84, Former Chairman Of Gannett and the A.P., Is Dead

By Dennis Hevesi

August 23, 1991

Paul Miller, who presided over the Gannett Co. for 16 years as it grew into the nation's largest newspaper group, died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 84 years old.

Employer
Gannett Newspapers, Inc.
Ordering weight
1