Childs, Marquis William, 1903-. Papers, 1919-1967.
Title:
Papers, 1919-1967.
Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and St. Louis "Post-Dispatch" reporter and columnist who covered primarily national and world developments. Also represented are Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Harold L. Ickes, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hans V. Kaltenborn, C. Estes Kefauver, John F. Kennedy, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Trygve Lie, David E. Lilienthal, Walter Lippmann, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Clare Boothe Luce, H.L. Mencken, Mikhail Menshikov, Edward P. Morgan, Wayne L. Morse, Edward R. Murrow, Gaylord Nelson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Abraham Ribicoff, Edward V. Rickenbacker, Morris H. Rubin, Dean Rusk, Adlai E. Stevenson, W. Stuart Symington, Norman M. Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Earl Warren, Sumner Welles, and Wendell L. Willkie. Letters from readers include comments on the airline subsidy lobby, the John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations, and Childs' own political beliefs and concern for civil liberties. St. Louis "Post-Dispatch" Washington bureau files, 1932-1960, contain editorial correspondence, memos, dispatches, and some articles. The majority pertain to Raymond P. Brandt, head of the bureau, and Benjamin Reese, an editor in St. Louis; Childs himself is directly concerned with only a small percentage. In content, these files reflect the major national and international events to which they relate. Childs' writings are represented by free-lance articles; book reviews; speeches and addresses; drafts and notes of "Eisenhower, Captive Hero" (1958), "Ethics in Business Society" (1954, with S. Douglass Cater), "The Peacemaker" (1961), and "Taint of Innocence" (1967); reviews of these and other volumes; and manuscripts of several unpublished books. There are also scripts for several ABC radio news programs. Documentation of his research methodology includes notes and memoranda; interviews with Winston S. Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Alfred M. Landon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and news dispatches from Poland and Russia. Also included are miscellaneous business papers and biographical material. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.
ArchivalResource:
11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes) and4 tape recordings; plus.additions of 8.1 c.f.4 tape recordings, and83 photographs.
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