front row, left to right: J. Pulitzer, W. McGill, J. Hohenberg; back row, left to right: P. Day, E. Patterson, J. Reston, J. Cowles, L. Hills, N. Noyes, S. Meyer, R. Donovan, T. Winship, V. Royster (absent from photo: B. Bradlee)
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Is Dead at 80; Publisher Was Avid Art Collector
by DENNIS HEVESI
Published: Thursday, May 27, 1993
By Robert D. McFadden
January 13, 2013
Eugene C. Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Atlanta Constitution during the civil rights conflicts of the 1960s and later the managing editor of The Washington Post and editor of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, died on Saturday in St. Petersburg. He was 89.
The cause was complications from cancer, said George Rahdert, Mr. Patterson’s lawyer and longtime friend, who said he had been sick since last February.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Edward Wyatt
December 19, 1997
Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79.
Mr. Noyes had heart problems, said a son, Newbold Noyes 3d.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
Correction Appended
Sylvan H. Meyer, a newspaper editor and outspoken white supporter of civil rights in Georgia in the 1950's and 60's, died on April 8 at his home in Dahlonega, Ga. He was 79.
Mr. Meyer, who was chairman of the Georgia advisory committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1958 to 1965, advocated peaceful integration, a stand that led to death threats against him and his family.
William J. McGill, distinguished psychologist, author and president of Columbia University during the decade of the 1970s, died Sunday, Oct. 19, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 75 years old. He had suffered a severe heart attack last Wednesday and was a patient in John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital of the University of California, San Diego. He had been chancellor of UCSD from 1968 to 1970, before joining Columbia, and had been an adjunct professor there again for the past 17 years.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
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.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Anthony Ramirez
August 10, 2003
Robert J. Donovan, a ''shoe leather'' newspaper reporter without a college education who became a Washington correspondent, best-selling author and presidential historian, died on Friday at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. A longtime resident of Washington, he moved to Florida in 2001. He was 90.
A native of Plainview, TX, Price Day (1907-1978) was graduated from Princeton University in 1928. Following a variegated career as a freelance cartoonist and writer of science fiction & children's stories (most notably the young adult novel Well, About the Penguin [Simon & Schuster, 1939]) and journeyman reporter with the Fort Lauderdale News, he briefly served as city editor of the Fort Lauderdale Times in 1942.
John Cowles Jr., 82, Dies; Led Minneapolis Newspapers
by Bruce Weber, March 19, 2012, The New York Times
John Cowles Jr., a Minneapolis newspaper executive and philanthropist whose support for arts, sports and entertainment helped elevate the Twin Cities' cultural community to national prominence, died on Saturday at home in Minneapolis. He was 82.
The cause was lung cancer, his son Jay said.
