Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...

Scope and Content Scrapbook (1956-1989) of Mrs. Elizabeth Wukawitz, friend of Tom Dooley, which she sent to Father Hesburgh; consisting of letters from Tom Dooley to Mrs. Wukawitz and from Mrs. Wukawitz to Tom Dooley, draft of pages from "The Night They Burned the Mountain" transcribed from dictaphone recordings with corrections by Tom Dooley; clippings, photocopies of news articles, envelopes and mimeographed material. Also correspondence concerning his Congressional Medal of Honor (1959-1979),...

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Correspondence with Robert Speaight, 1941-1944, and others concerning Simon's work; manuscripts by Simon; newspaper and journal articles concerning Simon; reviews of his publications; and certificates and awards given Simon. Also microfilm of correspondence with editors, Supreme Court Justices, and John F. O'Hara, CSC, then President of Notre Dame; of clippings from Marquette University and Milwaukee newspapers; and of his journal, 1945-1949.