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.

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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.

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Kenneth MacDonald worked at the [Des Moines Register] for 50 years, starting at the age of 21. In 1926, MacDonald, a journalism graduate from the University of Iowa, came to see William Waymack, who was the managing editor. There was some mistrust of journalism graduates by the old guard, and Waymack didn’t give MacDonald much hope for a job, but he did mention that the news editor could use a copyreader. MacDonald walked out of Waymack’s office, into the newsroom and told the news editor he was ready to start.

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McKelway, Benjamin Mosby

By Betty J. Brandon, 1991

2 Oct. 1895–30 Aug. 1976

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A Writer and a Businessman

By Deirdre Carmody

June 17, 1981

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Grayson Kirk, 94, President of Columbia During the 1968 Student Protests, Is Dead

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.