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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 ...
After first working for the Tulsa World, he joined the staff of The Kansas City Star in 1948. He became sports editor in 1966 and was named editor of the Star in 1986. After the Kansas City Athletics departed for Oakland, California at the close of the 1967 season, McGuff played a major role in ensuring that Kansas City would gain a new ...
Alvin Scott McCoy (July 14, 1903 – March 12, 1988) [1] [2] was an American journalist of The Kansas City Star who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for a series of articles published the previous year that drove C. Wesley Roberts to resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee. [3] [4]
William E. Vaughan (October 8, 1915 – February 25, 1977) was an American columnist and author.Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977.
Carol Jean Mays (July 16, 1933 - December 15, 2021 [1]) was an American Democratic politician from Independence, Missouri, who served in the Missouri House of Representatives.
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.