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Hibbs, Ben, 1901-1975

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1901 - 1975-

Found in 2 Records:

Ben Hibbs papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 191
Overview Ben Hibbs was born in Fontana, Kansas in 1901. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in journalism in 1923. He then edited several Kansas newspapers before becoming an editor at the Saturday Evening Post and then Reader's Digest. He was a friend of former President Dwight Eisenhower and edited his writings. Hibbs died in 1975 of leukemia. This collection of his papers contains correspondence, manuscripts, periodicals, writing samples, academic documents, and...
Dates: 1918-1975

Papers of Drew McLaughlin

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P266
Overview

The collection contains correspondence from Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, William Allen White, Kansas Attorney General William Smith, and Herbert Hoover, as well as clippings and radio broadcasts concerning Mr. McLaughlin. Collection also contains a delegate medal owned by McLaughlin from the Republican National Convetion held in Kansas City in 1928.

Dates: 1906 - 1949

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Kansas -- Newspapers 1
Miami County (Kan.) 1
Paola (Kan.) 1