The 1940s: Media: Deaths

THE 1940s: MEDIA: DEATHS

Nicholas Afonsky, 51, artist for Sunday Little Orphan Annie strip, 16 June 1943.

Carl Anderson, 83, creator of the Henry comic strip, 4 November 1948.

Harold MacDonald Anderson, 64, editorial writer on the staff of the New York Sun; author of the famous editorial "Lindbergh Flies Alone," which appeared when Charles A. Lindbergh was making his solo flight to France in 1927, 26 December 1940.

Millard V. Atwood, 55, newspaper editor, 3 November 1941.

Ray Stanard Baker, 76, prolific author and magazine editor, awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Woodrow Wilson, 12 July 1946.

Stuart Ballantine, 47, radio engineer, 7 May 1944.

Ralph W. Barnes, 41, foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, 19 November 1940.

Nat A. Barrows, 44, journalist and correspondent for the Boston Globe, famous for his series on submarines, 12 July 1949.

George Barton, 74, journalist and writer of mystery stories, 17 March 1940.

Edward Price Bell, 74, newspaperman, 23 September 1943.

James O'Donnell Bennett, 69, retired member of the staff of the Chicago Tribune and one of the best-known American newspapermen, 27 February 1940.

May Birkhead, 55, correspondent and fashion writer, 27 October 1941.

Alexander Black, 81, author, newspaper editor, and expert on photography, 8 May 1940.

Paul Block, 63, newspaper publisher, 22 June 1941.

Stephen Bolles, congressman and newspaperman, 8 July 1941.

George G. Booth, 84, publisher of both the Scripps and Booth newspaper chains, 11 April 1949.

Edward Bowes, 71, radio producer and showman who inaugurated the "amateur hour" radio format, 13 June 1946.

Tom Breneman, 45, radio performer and showman, famous for his daytime program Breakfast at Sardi's, 28 April 1948.

Frank E. Butler, 71, radio engineer who assisted Lee De Forest in his early experiments with radio, 6 January 1948.

Victor F. Calverton, 40, founder and editor of the Modern Quarterly, 20 November 1940.

Joseph J. Canavan, 53, former newspaper editor and chairman of the New York State Board of Parole, 10 October 1940.

Clifton B. Carberry, managing editor of the Boston Post since 1907 and widely known as the author of its "John Bantry" articles, 8 June 1940.

Frank Wesley Carson, 60, newspaper editor, 19 March 1941.

James Mckeen Cattell, 83, psychologist whose dismissal from Columbia University for criticizing the draft during World War I was controversial, editor of Science (1894-1944), 20 January 1944.

Owen Cattell, 42, assistant to the editor of Science, official weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; business manager of Science Press, 26 March 1940.

Harry Chandler, 80, newspaper publisher, 23 September 1944.

Raymond Clapper, 52, journalist and columnist, 3 February 1944.

Negley Dakin Cochran, 77, newspaper editor, 13 April 1941.

Franklin Coe, 68, former publisher of Town and Country, 20 February 1940.

William Haskell Coffin, 63, magazine illustrator and portrait painter, 12 May 1941.

Frank Condon, 58, sports writer for magazines and author of short stories, 19 December 1940.

Frank Conrad, 67, engineer and radio expert, 11 December 1941.

Al Copland, 75, turf editor of the New York Daily News, 29 June 1940.

Frank Crowninshield, 75, editor of Vanity Fair (1914-1935) credited with introducing the French modernist painters to the United States through reproductions in his magazine, 28 December 1947.

John Trevor Custis, 68, newspaper editor, 3 December 1944.

Josephus Daniels, 85, editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, secretary of the navy under President Woodrow Wilson, ambassador to Mexico under President Franklin Roosevelt, 15 January 1948.

William Morgan "Billy" De Beck, 52, creator of the comic strip Barney Google, 11 November 1942.

Charles Henry Dennis, 83, reporter, editor, and columnist for the Chicago Daily News, 25 September 1943.

William Thompson Dewart, 68, newspaper publisher, 27 January 1944.

Nelson Doubleday, 59, chairman of the board of Doubleday Publishing, one of the largest publishing houses in the world, 11 January 1949.

Walter Jack Duncan, 60, artist and magazine illustrator, 11 April 1941.

J. Allan Dunn, 69, author, journalist, and explorer, 25 March 1941.

William Atherton Du Puy, 65, journalist and author, 11 August 1941.

James N. Durkin, 54, widely known New Jersey police reporter, 23 June 1940.

Richard M. Fairbanks, 60, newspaper publisher, 26 July 1944.

Alvin Irwin Findley, 81 , editor in chief and director of the Iron Age Publishing Company of New York for twenty-one years, 12 December 1940.

G. Selmer Fougner, 56, newspaperman, 2 April 1941.

M. C. Gaines, 51, comic-book pioneer, 20 August 1947.

Charles Dana Gibson, 77, artist and illustrator of the famous "Gibson Girl," who appeared in many magazines, 23 December 1944.

Walter Samuel Goodland, 83, small-town Wisconsin newspaperman elected governor in 1945, 12 March 1947.

Frederic William Goudy, 82, type designer whose typefaces are widely used in publishing, 11 May 1947.

Charles Gratke, 47, newspaperman, foreign editor of the Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 1949.

Clarence Clark Hamlin, 72, newspaper publisher, political leader, and well-known attorney, 30 September 1940.

Nelson Harding, 65, cartoonist, 7 August 1944.

Henry S. Harper, 77, publisher, 1 March 1944.

Lee Foster Hartman, 61, magazine editor, 23 September 1941.

Rev. Francis J. Healy, 57, editor in chief of the Tablet Roman Catholic weekly, 10 December 1940.

Burton J. Hendrick, 77, muckraking journalist at McClure's Magazine and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 24 March 1949.

George Herriman, 66, creator of Krazy Kat and other comic strips, 25 April 1944.

Benjamin Franklin Irvine, 77, noted blind editor of the Oregon Journal, 1 May 1940.

George Sibley Johns, 83, newspaper editor, 16 July 1941.

Billy Jones, 51, pioneer radio singer and comedian, with partner Ernie Hare formed the Happiness Boys, 23 November 1940.

Theodore Goldsmith Joslin, 54, newspaperman, 12 April 1944.

Edward Leggett Keen, 73, newspaperman, 7 October 1943.

Frederick W. Kellogg, 73, publisher and founder of many newspapers in the Midwest and Far West, 5 September 1940.

Albert R. Kessinger, 74, newspaper editor and publisher, 24 February 1941.

Edwin John Kiest, 79, newspaper publisher, 11 August 1941.

Willis Sharpe Kilmer, 71, newspaper publisher and patent medicine manufacturer, 12 July 1940.

Herbert R. Knickerbocker, 51, foreign correspondent for the International News Service, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1931,12 July 1949.

Dr. Henry McElderry Knower, 71, managing editor of the American Journal of Anatomy for twenty-one years, 10 January 1940.

W. Franklin Knox, 70, conservative publisher of the Chicago Daily News, GOP vice-presidential candidate in 1936, secretary of the navy from 1940 to 1944, 28 April 1944.

Rex Lardner, 59, magazine editor, 23 June 1941.

Bruno Lessing (Rudolph Block), 69, newspaper columnist, 29 April 1940.

Lloyd Downs Lewis, 57, author and managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, 21 April 1949.

Philip Littell, 75, writer and journalist, 31 October (?) 1943.

John Avery Lomax, 80, recorder and collector of folk songs, 26 January 1948.

W. E. MacFarlane, 60, newspaper executive, 9 October 1944.

Jacob Magidoff, 74, editor and journalist, 26 August 1943.

Joseph Warren Teets Mason, 62, columnist and editor, 13 May 1941.

Samuel S. McClure, 92, founder and publisher of McClure's Magazine, perhaps the most famous muckraking journal of the Progressive era, 21 March 1949.

John Tinney McCutcheon, 79, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, 10 June 1949.

James H. McGraw, 87, cofounder of the McGraw-Hill publishing firm, one of the largest publishers of technical journals and books, 21 February 1948.

Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, 65, editor of the Washington (D.C.) Times, secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 13 December 1943.

Neysa McMein, 59, fashion illustrator whose works appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, and Collier's, among other magazines, credited for the beauty vogue associated with the "McMein girl," 12 May 1949.

James Jackson Montague, 68, newspaperman, 16 December 1941.

William Emmet Moore, 63, newspaper editor, 27 December 1941.

Truman Spencer Morgan, 72, president of F. W. Dodge Corporation, publishers of trade journals and catalogues, 21 December 1940.

Charles Moulton (William Moulton Marston), 53, creator of Wonder Woman, 2 May 1947.

Frederick E. Murphey, 67, publisher of the Minneapolis Times Tribune, 14 February 1940.

J. Edwin Murphy, 66, journalist, 29 March 1943.

Frank B. Noyes, 85, president of the Washington (D.C.) Star, one of the founders of the Associated Press, 1 December 1948.

Frank Michael O'Brien, 68, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor for the New York Sun, 22 September 1943.

Howard V. O'Brien, 59, columnist with the Chicago Daily News, 30 September 1947.

Joseph Jefferson O'Neill, 61, widely known New York newspaperman, later a publicity expert in Hollywood, 17 April 1940.

Chase Salmon Osborn, 88, owner and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel, governor of Michigan (1911-1913), 11 April 1949.

George B. Parker, 63, editor in chief of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1936, 10 October 1949.

Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, granddaughter of Joseph Medill (founder of the Chicago Tribune), added the Washington (D.C.) Times-Herald to the Tribune news-papers in 1939; also noted for her outspoken opposition to the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, 24 July 1948.

Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, newspaper editor and publisher of the New York Daily News who promoted such comics strips as Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Little Orphan Annie, and Terry and the Pirates, 26 May 1946.

John Sanburn Phillips, 87, publisher, along with Samuel S. McClure organized one of the first newspaper feature syndicates, 28 February 1949.

Ernest T. Pyle, 44, famed war correspondent, killed during the Okinawa operation, 18 April 1945.

Ogden M. Reid, 64, editor and president of the New York Herald Tribune, 3 January 1947.

Robert LeRoy Ripley, 57, illustrator famous for his Believe It or Not cartoons, 27 May 1949.

William Carman Roberts, 64, magazine editor, 21 November 1941.

Victor Rosewater, 69, editor, publisher, and politician, 12 July 1940.

Damon Runyon, 51, author and journalist, reporter for the Hearst press, later famous for short stories set on Broadway, 10 December 1946.

John Pitts Sanborn, 62, newspaperman and music critic, 7 March 1941.

Frederick William Saward, 70, editor and publisher of Saward's Journal, a coal-trade weekly, 23 April 1940.

James Schermerhorn, 76, newspaper publisher, 2 December 1941.

Otto Schmidt, newspaper and magazine artist, 20 May 1940.

Alexander R. Sharton, 63, newspaper publisher, 30 January 1943.

Edwin Llewellyn Shuman, 78, magazine editor, 13 December 1941.

Thomas O'Conor Sloane, 88, scientist and author, former editor of Amazing Stories magazine, and associate editor of Science and Invention, 7 August 1940.

Col. Clarence James Smith, 66, journalist, part owner of the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, 28 August 1940.

Renee Stern, 65, author and newspaperwoman, 19 May 1940.

John Leigh ton Stewart, 63, founder of the Pennsylvania Publishers Association, 31 May 1940.

Frank Parker Stockbridge, 70, author and journalist, former managing editor of the old New York Evening Mail, the New York Globe, and the New York Herald, 7 December 1940.

Allison Stone, 67, publisher of the Providence Journal, 11 September 1940.

Edward Howard Suydam, 55, artist and magazine illustrator, 23 December 1940.

Ida Tarbell, 86, muckraking journalist famous for her study of the Standard Oil Company, 6 January 1944.

Charles Henry Taylor, 73, journalist, 18 August 1941.

Samuel Emory Thomason, 61, newspaper publisher, 20 March 1944.

Paul Thompson, 62, pioneer news photographer who got his start by taking pictures of Mark Twain, 20 November 1940.

Charles Hanson Towne, 72, author and editor of Harpers Bazaar (1926-1931), 28 February 1949.

Grenville Vernon, 58, author and journalist, 30 November 1941.

Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation magazine, 1 October 1949.

John Thompson Whitaker, 40, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, 11 September 1946.

Matthew White, Jr., 83, for twenty-eight years dramatic editor of Munsey's Magazine, 17 September 1940.

Trumbull White, 73, magazine editor, author, and explorer, 13 December 1941.

William Allen White, 75, journalist and editor who elevated the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette to international prominence based on the strength of his editorials, 29 January 1944.

Frederic William Wile, 67, newspaperman and author, 7 April 1941.

Casper Salathiel Yost, 76, newspaper editor, 30 May 1941.

Arthur Henry Young, 77, illustrator, cartoonist, and social activist, best known for his work in the Masses and New Masses magazines, 29 December 1943.