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unusual facts about Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.


Perry T. Rathbone

He was a champion of modern art, and along with Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., stimulated many other collectors of modern art in St. Louis.


Allen Sangree

It appears that this series of events ended with the libel suite against Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb Van Hamm and Robert Hunt Lyman of the New York World as well as the World itself, and the Press Publishing Company for libel against William Nelson Cromwell, J.P. Morgan, Douglas Robinson, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt.

American election campaigns in the 19th century

After 1900, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and other big city politician-publishers discovered they could make far more profit through advertising, at so many dollars per thousand readers.

Elwood Richard Quesada

On October 12, 1946, Quesada married Kate Davis Putnam, the granddaughter of Joseph Pulitzer (founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch), and a war widow (her first husband was Capt. Henry Ware Putnam who died in an air raid over Tokyo on May 25, 1945).

Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District

Families such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Kents, Pulitzers, McCormacks, and Fords built cottages, which could more aptly be described as mansions.

Hotel Pulitzer

After several years the hotel was named after Herbert Pulitzer, the then owner of the hotel and the grandson of Joseph Pulitzer.

Hurrian foundation pegs

The Met lion was also purchased in 1948 from a New York antiquities dealer with funds from the Joseph Pulitzer Bequest.

James Creelman

After stints at several other newspapers, including the Paris Herald, the Evening Telegram, and magazines Illustrated American and Cosmopolitan, Creelman landed at Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in 1894, where he accompanied the Japanese Army to cover the Sino-Japanese War.

Jazz journalism

In 1920, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer extended yellow journalism into tabloid journalism with an emphasis on sex, violence, murder, and celebrity affairs.

Jefferson B. Snyder

Guests included the Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb and the journalist Bob Davis, the columnist who penned "Bob Davis Recalls" for the Joseph Pulitzer newspaper chain.

Kenward Elmslie

Born in New York City, Elmslie, a grandson of publisher Joseph Pulitzer, spent his childhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, prepped at the St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in literature.

Lilly Pulitzer

In 1950, she eloped with Herbert (Peter) Pulitzer Jr., grandson of publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

Mount Pulitzer

Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a patron of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933-35.

Nicholson Baker

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898– 1911) (2005, Bulfinch; ISBN 0-8212-6193-2)

Richard F. Outcault

After he signed on with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, Pulitzer placed Outcault's comics in a color supplement, using a single-panel color cartoon on the front page called Hogan's Alley, depicting an event in a fictional slum.

Serena Lederer

Born in a rich Jewish family,(a relative of the U.S. journalist Joseph Pulitzer), Serena was known for being a beauty in her youth and later a Grande Dame.

Sunday comics

In America, the popularity of comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

SY Liberty

SY Liberty was a steam yacht built for Joseph Pulitzer and one of the largest private yachts of its day.

The Yellow Kid

The four different black-and-white single panel cartoons were deemed popular, and one of them, Fourth Ward Brownies, was reprinted on 17 February 1895 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, where Outcault worked as a technical drawing artist.


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