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By Deirdre Carmody
June 17, 1981
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By Karen W. Arenson
November 22, 1997
Grayson Louis Kirk, the scholarly president of Columbia University whose ill-fated decision in the spring of 1968 to turn 1,000 police officers in riot gear against student protesters became an emblem of the generational conflict characterizing the Vietnam War era, died early yesterday morning.
He was 94 and died in his sleep at his home in Bronxville, N.Y., his son, John G. Kirk, said.
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By Douglas Martin
August 8, 2000
John Hohenberg, who began his journalism career as a teenager by snatching an interview with the president of the United States and went on to become administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday morning at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 94.
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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.
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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
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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.