Robert Henry Mason papers, 1933-1987 [manuscript].

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Robert Henry Mason papers, 1933-1987 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26180477

Correspondence, speeches and writings, news clippings, and photographs documenting the career of Robert Henry Mason. Correspondence is with newspaper colleagues, other business associates, government officials and friends, including Jonathan Daniels (1902-1981), Doris Betts (1932- ), Alonzo Dill, and Burke Davis, and deals with such matters as the American Society of Newspaper Editors; the "Sanford Herald," Sanford, N.C., which Mason partly owned in the mid 1950s; and the editorial stance of the "Virginian-Pilot."

About 2500 items (5.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Betts, Doris

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Doris June Waugh Betts was a white North Carolina author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was born 4 June 1932 in Statesville, N.C., and graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C. Betts married Lowry Matthews Betts (1930-2007) in 1952 and with him had three children: Doris LewEllyn, David Lowry, and Erskine Moore. Betts began her writing career as a newspaper reporter. She firs...

Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Daniels : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481338 From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Worth Daniels : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451557 Author, journalist, and government official Jonathan Daniels was a college classmate of Thomas Wolfe at the University of North Carolina. ...

Dill, Alonzo Thomas

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American society of newspaper editors

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The American Society of Newspaper Editors was founded in 1922. The first president was Casper Yost of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat . From the guide to the American Society of Newspaper Editors Records, 1964-1966, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Davis, Burke, 1913-2006

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Burke Davis (1913-2006) was a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C. From the guide to the Burke Davis Papers, 1920-1987, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Burke Davis was a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C. From the description of Burke Davis papers, 1920-19887. WorldCat record id: 34641226 ...

Mason, Robert Henry, 1912-

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Robert Henry Mason worked as a writer and in other capacities for the "Virginian-Pilot" in Norfolk, Va., 1945-1952 and 1957-1978, and was editor of that paper, 1962-1978. From the description of Robert Henry Mason papers, 1933-1987 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26180477 Robert Henry Mason was born on 1 September 1912 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up in Mebane. He received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1933. He married Franc...