Personal Papers of Doris Fleeson 1912-1970

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Personal Papers of Doris Fleeson 1912-1970

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Doris Fleeson graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in journalism in 1923. While at KU she worked on the University Daily Kansan. Flesson also worked for the and was also a war correspondent for . She won a number of awards and citations for her reporting, including the Raymond Clapper Award in 1954. The collection includes newspaper clippings of her articles, photographs, and correspondence with members of the press in Washington as well as administrators of United States federal government . New York Daily News The Women's Home Companion

2.25 linear ft. (5 boxes), 8 oversize boxes

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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Fleeson, Doris, 1901-1970

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Journalist; interviewee married Dan Kimball. From the description of Reminiscences of Doris Fleeson Kimball : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122441411 Doris Fleeson was a newspaper reporter and syndicated columnist in Washington D.C. for nearly 40 years, beginning in 1933, and was known as an aggressive political reporter. Fleeson was born in Sterling, Kansas on May 20, 1901. Fleeson graduated from the Univ...