1960 | The Pulitzer Prizes

Miriam Ottenberg

Citation

For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices.

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Washington, DC

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The Evening Star

Jack Nelson

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For the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia.

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The Atlanta (GA) Constitution

Louis B. Seltzer

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editor

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Louis B.

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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.

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Cleveland Press

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Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (III)

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president and publisher

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Joseph Jr. (III)

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Pulitzer

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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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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Paul Miller

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president/chairman of the board

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Paul

Last name

Miller

Location

Rochester, NY

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(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.

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Gannett Newspapers, Inc.

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W.D. Maxwell

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vice president and editor

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W.D.

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Maxwell

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(Courtesy of Marquis Who's Who)

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Chicago Tribune

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Kenneth MacDonald

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vice president and editor

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Kenneth

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MacDonald

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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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Des Moines Register and Tribune

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Benjamin M. McKelway

Job title

vice president and editor

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Benjamin H.

Last name

McKelway

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(Courtesy of NCPedia)

McKelway, Benjamin Mosby

By Betty J. Brandon, 1991

2 Oct. 1895–30 Aug. 1976

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The Washington (DC) Evening Star

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Grayson Kirk

Job title

president

First name

Grayson

Last name

Kirk

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New York, NY

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(Courtesy of The New York Times)

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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Columbia University

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John Hohenberg

Job title

executive secretary, The Pulitzer Prizes

First name

John

Last name

Hohenberg

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(Courtesy of The New York Times)

John Hohenberg, 94, Former Pulitzer Prize Official, Dies

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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Columbia University

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