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America 1950-1959: Media

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Julius Ochs Adler, 62, general manager of the New York Times, publisher of the Chattanooga Times, 3 October 1955.

Frederick Lewis Allen, 63, editor in chief, Harper's magazine (1941-1953), 13 February 1954.

Bert Andrews, 52, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, Pulitzer Prize winner (1947), 21 August 1953.

Edwin Howard Armstrong, inventor of FM radio, 1 February 1954.

John Balaban, 62, motion picture executive and president of Balaban & Katz Corporation since 1949, 4 April 1957.

Suzan Ball, 22, television actress, 5 August 1955. Marshal Ballard, 74, editor of the New Orleans Item (1906-1947), 24 March 1953.

Meyer Berger, 60, newspaperman, New York Times correspondent (1928-1959), 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner, 8 February 1959.

Stephen Bonsai, 86, foreign correspondent, diplomat, author, 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for Unfinished Business, 8 June 1951.

Edna Woolman Chase, 80, editor of Vogue magazine (1914—1952), initiated women's fashion shows in the United States, 20.....

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