1957 | The Pulitzer Prizes

For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements.

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Portland Oregonian

Staff

Citation

For its prompt and efficient coverage of the crash of two air liners over the Grand Canyon, in which 128 persons were killed. This was a team job that surmounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain.

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Publication

Salt Lake (UT) Tribune

Louis B. Seltzer

Job title

editor

First name

Louis B.

Last name

Seltzer

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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

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Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (III)

Job title

president and publisher

First name

Joseph Jr. (III)

Last name

Pulitzer

Years

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

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