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Lot of Five Signatures of Journalists

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 125.00 USD
Lot of Five Signatures of Journalists
<B>Lot of Five Signatures of Journalists,</B></I> including: <B>Herbert Bayard Swop</B></I> (1882-1958) was an American editor and journalist. He was the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1917. He is known for his quote, "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time." He is also the person credited with coining the phrase "Cold War"; <B>Lucius Beebe</B></I> (1902 -1966), was an author, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist; <B>Westbrook Pegler</B></I> (1894-1969) was an American journalist and writer. Working for United Press young Pegler was the youngest American war correspondent in World War I. After the war, Pegler started off as a sports columnist, but later wrote general interest articles. In 1925 he moved to the <I>Chicago Tribune.</B></I> In 1933 he moved to the Scripps Howard syndicate. In 1942 he was named one of the nation's "best adult columnists." His columns went out six days a week to 174 newspapers that reached about 10 million subscribers. He moved his syndicated column to the Hearst syndicate in 1944. His views-always expressed in vehement, and colorful language-became increasingly conservative and right-wing; <B>Richard Tregaskis</B></I> (1916-1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is <I>Guadalcanal Diary</B></I> (1943), an account of the U.S. Marines' invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Tregaskis served as a war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War; and, <B>Mark Watson.</B></I> All are on cards, mounted on stiff card stock with a brief biographical sketch. All very Fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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