Word: lunsford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of Washington correspondence, drawling, Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Lunsford Stokes has built a reputation much like that of his onetime boss and friend, the late Raymond Clapper. Washington knew him to be, like Clapper, a hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...
...Scripps-Howard star reporter emerged last week as a full-fledged columnist. Thomas Lunsford ("Tom") Stokes signed a new contract with United Feature Syndicate, and went to the head of the columnar class in the New York World-Telegram, bellwether of the Scripps-Howard chain. Stokes's column was appearing in 63 other newspapers, plus 32 in which it was temporarily replacing Ernie Pyle...
...TODD LUNSFORD...