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John T. Cunningham, prolific and wide-ranging writer on the history of New Jersey. • Lloyd M. Felmly, Editor of the Newark Evening News and a friend of public health. There is an award set up in his honor. Lloyd M. Felmly Award: Established in 1976, the annual award is presented to an individual for outstanding contribution in the media to the cause of public health in New Jersey. •
Howard Roger Garis, reporter, who created the
Uncle Wiggily character as a
News reporter. His Uncle Wiggily books later sold in the millions, and the Wiggily character appeared daily in the
News for nearly four decades. He also wrote the first 32 volumes in the
Tom Swift, series, written under the pen name
Victor Appleton. •
Lilian McNamara (Garis). The first female reporter on the
News, she later married fellow
News reporter, Howard Garis. She helped launch the
Bobbsey Twins series and wrote some of the early volumes. •
George P. Oslin, leading reporter. He later became Public Relations head of
Western Union, and in 1933 invented the
singing telegram. •
Lute Pease,
News editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1949
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "
Who, Me?" •
Richard Reeves, writer for the
News from 1963 to 1965. Later he spent one year at the
New York Herald Tribune and then
The New York Times as Chief Political Correspondent. His best-selling books included
President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1993), and
President Nixon: Alone in the White House (2001). He is currently a syndicated columnist and lecturer at the
Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. •
Andrew E. Svenson worked for the
News from 1932 until 1948. After leaving the newspaper, he joined the
Stratemeyer Syndicate, where he became a partner in 1961. Svenson shared the major writing chores with
Harriet Adams. Under a variety of pseudonyms, many shared with other authors, Svenson wrote books for the
Hardy Boys,
Bobbsey Twins,
Tom Swift, and
Honey Bunch series. • Arthur Sylvester headed the
News bureau in Washington, D.C.. In 1960, he joined the
Kennedy administration as
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. •
Cecil Dorrian was one of two accredited female war correspondents during World War I and wrote for the
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