Herbert Block Papers 1863-2002 (bulk 1945-2001)

Kelly, Walter C., 1873-1939

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The comic strip "Pogo", created by Walt Kelly, ran in daily newspapers from 1948 to 1973. The strip was set in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp and was populated by animals talking in a fractured southern dialect. Over the years "Pogo" often referred to Georgia and to several of the state's locales, such as Waycross, Fort Mudge, and Ware County. In the 1950s it was the most popular daily strip in America, primarily because of its blend of slapstick humor and engaging characters. The comic strip's popu...

Hill, Draper

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Governor of the State of Michigan (1983-1991). From the description of James Blanchard print, circa 1983-1991. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 312165019 ...

Macnelly, Jeff

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d. June 8, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 84207647 ...

Rosenblatt, Roger A.

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Rosenblatt, Maurice

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Lobbyist and consultant. Born 1915. From the description of Maurice Rosenblatt papers, 1910-2003 (bulk 1942-2000). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984484 ...

Shoemaker, Vaughn, 1902-1991

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Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970

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Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, journalist, author, and lecturer, was born in New York City. In 1910 she married Eugene Meyer, a financier who purchased The Washington Post in 1933. The Meyers lived in Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., where Agnes Meyer was active in government service and social reform. ...

Clinton, Bill, 1946-

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Newspaper Enterprise Association

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American news service with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Newspaper Enterprise Association miscellaneous records, 1919-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872013 Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Feature Syndicate are divisions of United Media, the information and entertainment company that develops and markets 150 comic strips and editorial features worldwide, including Peanuts, Marmaduke, Dilbert, The Born Loser, Miss Manners, Jack A...

Peters, Charles, 1926-....

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Epithet: MD, Physician to George II British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x000091 Epithet: Editor `The Girl's Own Paper' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000387 ...

Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994

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Illustrator and satiric artist; Salisbury, Conn. Died 1994. From the description of Robert C. Osborn photographs, 1928-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502619 Robert Osborn (1904-1994) was an illustrator and painter of Salisbury, Conn. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Chesley Osborn, 1974 Oct. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477514 Illustrator, painter; Salisbury, Conn. Died 1994. From the description of...

Dilliard, Irving, 1904-2002

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Trustee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (earlier name: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)); editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28410478 Editorial page editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and champion of victims of injustice, Dilliard served as a sponsor for the 1960 centennial celebration of Jane Addams who devoted her l...

Hill, Draper

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Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959

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Newspaperman. From the description of Papers of Eugene Meyer, 1819-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83145968 Financier, newspaper executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Meyer : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733277 ...

Barth, Alan.

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Alan Barth (1906-1979): newspapers reporter for the Beaumont, Texas Enterprise, 1936, and Journal, 1937-1938; correspondent in Washington, D.C. for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, 1938-1941; beginning in 1941 worked as editorial assistant for the Treasury Secretary and the Office of War Information; author of numerous books and articles. From the description of Alan Barth papers, 1937-1981 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169180 Journalist, author, and educato...

Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122480930 Labor lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513744 Lawyer, civil rights activist, and civil libertarian of Washington, D.C. Born Joseph Louis Rauh, Jr. Died 1992. ...

Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1998

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Auth, Tony

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Artist who illustrated Potok's children's book The Tree of Here (see box 140 for Auth's original drawings). From the description of Correspondence with Chaim Potok, 1993-2001. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 695043380 ...

Graham, Philip L., 1915-1963

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Shoemaker, Vaughn, 1902-

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Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-1991) was an American cartoonist. Shoemaker served as editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News from 1922-1952, where he created his famous character, John Q. Public. Also during his tenure with the Daily News, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice-once in 1938 for his cartoon "The Road Back", and again in 1947 for his cartoon "Still Racing His Shadow". Later in his career, Shoemaker worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American and Chic...

Hoffman, Irving, 1909-1968

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Rosenblatt, Roger.

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Telnaes, Ann, 1960-

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Fischetti, John R.

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John R. Fischetti (b.1916-d.1981) was editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times (1978-80) and the Chicago Daily News (1967-78) and staff cartoonist for The New York Herald Tribune (1962-67). He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1969. From the description of John Fischetti Collection, 1962-1980. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 24855784 Political cartoonist. Born in Brooklyn in 1916 and a graduate of the Pratt Technical Institute, F...

Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-

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Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013

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Newspaper columnist and author. From the description of Papers of Anthony Lewis, 1941-1975 (bulk 1963-1974). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132103 ...

Johnston, Lynn Franks, 1947-....

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Block, Herbert, 1909-2001

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Political cartoonist, author, and journalist. From the description of Herbert Block papers, 1863-2002 (bulk 1945-2001). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71073502 Cartoonist; interviewee signs cartoons as Herblock. From the description of Reminiscences of Herbert Block : lecture history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122573986 Biographical Note ...

Macnelly, Jeff

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Blumenthal, Frederick G.

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Jones, Chuck, 1912-2002

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McCune, Wesley, 1918-

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Journalist; executive assistant to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan; assistant to the deputy chairman, Democratic National Committe; director of public relations, National Farmers Union; and president, Group Research, Inc. From the description of Papers of Wesley McCune, 1942-1989. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70958926 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Rosenblatt, Maurice

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Biographical Note 1915, Aug. 8 Born, New York, N.Y. 1936 B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 1938 Publicist, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1939 Founded Coordinating Commi...

Ferry, W. H. (Wilbur Hugh)

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Wilbur Hugh Ferry, (1910- ), foundation consultant, vice president of the Fund for the Republic, staff administrator of the Study of the Economic Order of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara, Calif.). From the description of W.H. Ferry papers, [ca. 1966-1969]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476703 ...

Partymiller, Walt, 1911-1991

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Kelly, Walt

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b. Walter Crawford Kelly, 1913-1973. Comic strip artist, editorial cartoonist, animator. Kelly's only formal art training was in high school. His early employment included work as an animator with the Disney Studio (1935-1941) and freelance comic book work. He worked as art director and editorial cartoonist for the short-lived N.Y. Star (1948-1949). He is best known for the comic strip, Pogo, which first appeared in newspapers in The Star on October 4, 1948. The character of Pogo ha...

Gold, William E.

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Bradlee, Benjamin C.

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Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (b. 1921), journalist, newspaper editor, author, held posts with the New Hampshire Sunday News, the Washington Post, and the U.S. Foreign Service during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the Managing Editor of the Washington Post from 1965 to 1968. From the description of Bradlee, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Crowninshield), 1921- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10572597 ...

Graham, Donald E., 1945-

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Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001

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Publisher and author. From the description of Papers of Katharine Graham. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71073529 Katharine Graham (1917-2001) was a newspaper publisher and executive with the Washington Post Company. She was on the editorial staff at the Washington Post from 1939 to 1945, was a member of the Sunday circulation and editorial departments from 1969 to 1979, served as president of the Washington Post Company from 1963 to 1973, chairman of the board from 1973 to ...