WASHINGTON JOURNALISM REVIEW ARCHIVE- Eight Volume Archival Bound Set [1980-1987] with Additional Correspondence

Evans, Katherine Winton ; Henry and Jessica Catto ; et al.

Edité par Washington Journalism Review, Washington, DC, 1980

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Contents clean and secure in bright red buckram bindings. Approximately 80 individual issues (all published) in their original pictorial wrappers bound into annual volumes. Along with file folders containing correspondence to and from the editor Katherine Winton Evans. This archival set of the issues of the Washington Journalism Review during the stewardship of Henry and Jessica Catto from 1980 through 1987 is bound in red buckram with gilt lettering at spines and front boards. This set was owned by Katherine Winton Evans who replaced Raymond J. White as editor in 1980, shortly after the Cattos bought the publication. Kay Evans served as editor until the Cattos turned the publication over to University of Maryland in 1987. All volumes are complete and in quite fine condition. In addition, there are several file folders containing letters to Kay Evans regarding her tenure as editor of WJR; letters (1985-87) from other journalists, authors and editors regarding pieces published in WJR, as well as pieces submitted, but not published; clippings and bits of writing related to obituaries of journalists and others; and clippings and notes on matters related to public mistrust of the press; etc. Some of the letter writers include Arthur Schlesinger, Letitia Baldridge, Lady Kisty Hesketh, Ann Buchwald, Ben Bradlee, George Stevens, Rees Cleghorn, James Buckley, Stephen Rubin, Robert Coram, Tim Brooks, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tony Mauro, Stephen Schlesinger, John Goldman, Jack Nelson, Peter Teeley, etc. PROVENANCE: Katherine "Kay" Winton Evans was a Washington writer and editor and with her husband political columnist and television journalist Rowland Evans, Jr. a major figure in the social life of Georgetown, Washington, DC from the 1960s on. Mrs. Evans grew up in Minnesota outside Minneapolis on the shore of Lake Minnetonka; her father David J. Winton was president of the Winton Lumber Company. She graduated from the Putney School in Vermont and was a 1946 graduate of Vassar College, where she was editor of the Vassar Chronicle. After college she worked on the editorial page of The Minneapolis Times, and moved to Washington in 1948 where she met and married Rowland Evans, Jr., then a reporter for the Associated Press Washington Hill bureau. Mrs. Evans was on staff of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and later for Senator Paul H. Douglas. In 1980 she became the managing editor of The Washington Journalism Review and in 1983 became editor, a position she held until 1987. Mrs. Evans was a trustee for Vassar College for 15 years. Their home was the site of many memorable gatherings of influential and remarkable people from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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• Titre: WASHINGTON JOURNALISM REVIEW ARCHIVE- Eight Volume Archival Bound Set [1980-1987] with Additional Correspondence
• Éditeur: Washington Journalism Review, Washington, DC
• Date de parution: 1980
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Journalism
  • Americana and American History