| Birth: | Sep. 25, 1905 | | Death: | Jan. 15, 1982 | 
Journalist. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and graduated from Notre Dame in 1927. He went to work for the Milwaukee "Sentinel" as a general assignment reporter. The next year he went to work for the St. Louis "Star", with his first sports assignment being a night football game. Later he worked for the Philadelphia "Record", where he formed a close friendship with Grantland Rice. In 1945 he moved to the New York "Herald-Tribune" and was the most widely syndicated sports columnist by 1954. In 1971 he joined the New York "Times" and in 1976 won the Pulitzer Prize.
Search Amazon for Walter Smith | | | Burial:
Long Ridge Union Cemetery
Stamford
Fairfield County
Connecticut, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Nov 27, 1998
Find A Grave Memorial# 4067 |
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