WASHINGTON (AP) Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. “I could produce a story as fast as I could type,” Mears once acknowledged and he was a fast […]
He won a Pulitzer while reporting on politics for The Associated Press, and in an enduring 1973 book he epitomized the virtues of wire service journalism.
WASHINGTON (AP) Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it,