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Roy A. Roberts (left), Amb. Mikhail A. Menshikov, and Milburn Akers on May 17, 1958 (Chicago Sun-Times). Roy Allison Roberts (1887 – February 23, 1967) was a managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star who guided the paper during its influential period during the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
William Rockhill Nelson. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. [3] The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful ...
Kemper was born into an influential banking and railroading family in Kansas City, Missouri.His father was Rufus Crosby Kemper Sr. He attended Southwest High School in Kansas City, then transferred to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1945.
The Kansas City Star, based in Kansas City, Missouri, is our region’s largest newsroom and covers both Kansas and Missouri news and issues. Published since 1880, The Star is the recipient of ...
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The front cover of the Kansas City Star newspaper, engraved on a copper plate, is displayed on stage during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at the National WWI Museum and ...
He applied a subheading to the newspaper The Morning Kansas City Star and declared that The Kansas City Star was a 24-hour-a-day newspaper. In accordance with his will, employees took over the newspaper in 1926 upon the death of his daughter. The Star and Times were locally owned by employees until 1977, when they were sold to Capital Cities.
Following the accident, his father relocated the family to Kansas City, where he worked as a life insurance salesman. [4] As a child, Kauffman loved reading. When he was 11, he had to leave school for a year, due to a heart valve that would not close completely. [4] During this year, Kauffman taught himself how to speed read.