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Pittsburgh Fire Battalion Chief John Walsh died after he collapsed at the scene of a fire on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in East Hills, Penn., report Pittsburgh Post Gazette, WTAE and Trib Live.. Walsh ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
Anthony M. Grosso was born December 9, 1913. A native of Pittsburgh's Hill District, beginning in 1938, he was involved in running an illegal daily lottery in the area. [2] At its peak in the late 1960s, his business employed an estimated 5,000 people and grossed $30 million a year. [3] [4]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituary, October 3, 2005 "August Wilson, Theater's Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60", The New York Times, October 3, 2005. Margaret Busby, "August Wilson – Distinguished black American playwright who reclaimed the stories of his people", The Guardian, October 4, 2005.
July 21, 1988 New York Times obituary for John W. Galbreath; Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders (2003) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-102-5; June 1, 1959 Sports Illustrated article titled The Man, The Horse And The Deal That Made History; 1988 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituary
His stops included Columbus, Lawton, OK and Orlando, FL, where he called play-by-play in the World Football League in 1974–75. Savran came to Pittsburgh in January 1976 by responding to a "blind" ad for a radio sportscaster in the classified section of Broadcasting magazine. His first on-air job in Pittsburgh was at WWSW-AM.
Albert Edward Abrams (February 29, 1904 – March 3, 1977) was an American sportswriter who wrote for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1926 until his death in 1977, serving as its sports editor from April 1947 to March 1974.
Tom Barnes (September 1, 1946 – October 11, 2016) was an American journalist, who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as Harrisburg Bureau Chief. [1]Barnes, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned a B.A. degree from University of Michigan and a M.A. in journalism from University of Missouri. [1]