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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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.

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Norman Chandler, (born September 14, 1899, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died October 20, 1973, Los Angeles), American newspaper publisher who helped change the Los Angeles Times from a conservative regional journal to one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the world.

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Turner Catledge Dies at 82; Former Editor of The Times

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   

Erwin D. Canham, who guided The Christian Science Monitor as its chief news executive for nearly three decades, died yesterday in Agana, Guam. It was under Mr. Canham's leadership that the churchsponsored paper attained its reputation for thoughtful, analytical coverage. Mr. Canham was 77 years old.

Mr. Canham underwent abdominal surgery on Guam two weeks ago. He and his wife, Patience, maintained homes on Saipan, where he had served as resident commissioner of the Northern Marianas Islands in the 1970's, and at Cape Cod, Mass.

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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.