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Title
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Ernest Hemingway
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Description
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Photos and descriptions of Ernest Hemingway and his mentors at the Kansas City Star, editors T. W. Johnston, or Thomas Johnston, Jr., and C. G. Wellington, describing their relations to the "Star style" of journalism, making the paper very successful in the early twentieth century.
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Date
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1980-09-14
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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SC225 Kansas City Star Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Kansas City Star newspaper company was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. Nelson and his family went on to retain ownership of the company until their deaths in 1926 when ownership was bought by employees of the newspaper. Local stockholders owned the newspaper until 1977 when it was sold to corporate ownership. This collection, made up of a portion of the company’s records, documents the history of the newspaper and its founding family.
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Date
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1829/2007
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Star's Feature Writers Earn Top Honors
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Description
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Short article relating that three writers for The Kansas City Star won top prizes in the annual American Association of Sunday and Features Editors' Excellence-in-Feature-Writing Contest. The three were features writer James A. Fussell (first place in the general feature category for "One Who's Lived the Life Becomes Agent of Change," a story about Kristy Childs, founder of Veronica's Voice, a Kansas City organization that helps women leave prostitution); arts senior editor and writer Steve Paul (first place in best reader interactive category for "29-Second Film Festival"); and theater critic Robert Trussell (first place in the arts and entertainment feature category for "Drama of Hard Time").
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Date
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2009-07-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Zieman named "Star" President and Publisher
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Description
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"Mark Zieman, editor of "The Kansas City Star" since 1997, was named president and publisher," March 6, 2008. His promotion leaves the editor position open. Zieman joined "The Star" in 1986 and became editor of the projects desk in 1989. Zieman is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Rockhurst University.
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Date
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2008-03-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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She Covered KC for More Than 45 Years
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Description
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Article announces that Helen T. Gray, faith and religion editor for the Kansas City Star, has retired. Gray responds to questions concerning her decision to begin her newspaper career in Kansas City, working in the Star newsroom during the late 1960s and 1970s, and her 41 year stint as the paper's faith and religion editor.
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Date
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2013-01-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
