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John Harold Brislin

Citation
For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements.
Tags: 1959
Publication
Scranton (PA) Tribune and Scrantonian

Mary Lou Werner

Citation
For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia which demonstrated admirable qualities of accuracy, speed and the ability to interpret the news under deadline pressure in the course of a difficult and taxing assignment. (Werner was identified as "Miss Mary Lou Werner" in the original announcement.)
Tags: 1959
Location
Washington, DC
Publication
The Evening Star

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)

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.
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1