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Sportswriters -- United States -- Archives.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Shirley Povich papers

 Collection 0034-MMC-LAB
Abstract Shirley Povich (1905-1998) was a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post. He joined the Post as a copy boy, then cub reporter, and began his sports writing career in 1924. He worked as the sports editor at the Post from 1925 to 1966. He became a sports columnist in 1933 and continued in that role until his death, except for the time he spent war reporting in the Pacific Theater from 1944-45....
Dates: 1908-2008, and undated; Majority of material found within 1940-1999