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.

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.

(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.

(Courtesy of Marquis Who's Who)