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Catledge (Turner) Papers Mississippi State University Scholars Junction Special Collections Finding Aids Special Collections 9-30-2019 Catledge (Turner) papers Mississippi State University Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/spcoll-findingaids Recommended Citation Mississippi State University Libraries, "Catledge (Turner) papers" (2019). Special Collections Finding Aids. 207. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/spcoll-findingaids/207 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Scholars Junction. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Collections Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of Scholars Junction. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Note: To navigate the sections of this PDF finding aid, click on the Bookmarks tab or the Bookmarks icon on the left side of the page. Mississippi State University Libraries Special Collections Department Manuscripts Division P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408 Phone: (662) 325–7679 E-mail: [email protected] Turner Catledge papers MSS.116 Dates: 1873-1985 Extent: circa 132 cubic feet and microfilm Preferred Citation: Turner Catledge papers, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries. Access: Open to all researchers. Copyright Statement: Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian for Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Mississippi State University as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Scope and Contents The collection consists of the personal and business papers of William Turner Catledge (1901-1983), graduate of Mississippi A&M College, journalist, and editor of The New York Times. Catledge was reared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, and worked for several Mississippi newspapers, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Baltimore Sun before beginning his distinguished career with The New York Times in 1929. The bulk of the files date from 1945 to 1968, the period during which Catledge served as assistant managing editor, executive managing editor, managing editor, and executive editor of the Times. Included are correspondence, memoranda, clippings, reports, photographs, tapes, phonograph records, memorabilia, and publications. The collection is divided into two series: 1 - papers transferred to MSU from the Catledge home in New Orleans, mostly personal and dated after Catledge’s retirement from The Times, 1873-1985, and includes some miscellaneous items donated by other people (circa 20 cubic feet), and 2 - office files transferred to MSU from the New York Times office in New York, 1922-1970 (circa 112 cubic feet). Biographical Information 1974 biography: Since he eased into the profession at 14 and eased out at 69, Turner Catledge can be said to have been a newspaperman for over half a century, most of it with The New York Times. He served that newspaper as a reporter, a Washington correspondent, national correspondent, assistant managing editor, executive managing editor, managing editor and as its first executive editor. When he resigned as a vice president in January, 1970, although continuing as a member of the board of directors until April, 1973, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher of The Times, paid this tribute to him: "Turner Catledge's name is written large in the history of The New York Times. He has served the paper with distinction for over 40 years and during most of that time, as managing editor and executive editor, has guided the news departments to new heights of achievement. He leaves us a tradition of superlative performance.'' Mr. Catledge was born on March 17, 1901, in Ackerman, Mississippi, and grew up in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He started newspaper work at 14, setting type for the weekly Neshoba Democrat. After being graduated from Mississippi State College in 1922, he became editor of The Tunica Times and then managing editor and mechanical superintendent of The Tupelo Journal. On both newspapers he campaigned against the then strong Ku Klux Klan. He first began to attract more than local notice as a newspaperman of unusual abilities in 1924, when he became a reporter on the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He joined the staff of The Baltimore Sun in June, 1927, and remained there until he carne to The New York Times in July, 1929. He was employed by The Times as a direct result of a letter sent to Adolph S. Ochs, then publisher of The Times, by Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, who had observed Mr. Catledge's work in covering the 1927 Mississippi floods. Mr. Catledge was on the local staff of The Times for five months before being transferred to the Washington bureau. He remained in the bureau in various capacities, including those of Capitol correspondent and White House correspondent, until 1936, when he became The Times chief news correspondent. In this post, he covered all phases of government, political and national life, and traveled in virtually every state of the union. In December, 1941, Mr. Catledge moved to The Chicago Sun, where he was successively its roving correspondent and editor-in-chief. He returned to The New York Times in May, 1943, as the newspaper's national correspondent, with headquarters in Washington. That same year he went to the European battlefronts and covered the activities of the American Red Cross for The Times.In November, 1944, he accompanied the late publisher of The Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, on a long tour of the South Pacific. Since that time, he has traveled extensively in Europe, including Russia, and other parts of the world. Mr. Catledge became assistant managing editor of The Times in January, 1945; executive managing editor in January, 1951; and managing editor in December, 1951.He was executive editor of The Times from September, 1964, until June, 1968, when he became a vice president. In May 1957, he scored a world reporting exclusive, an interview with Russian Premier Nikita S. Krushchev in which the Premier urged a summit meeting of great-power leaders. Mr. Catledge has been a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors since 1951, was elected to its board of directors in 1954 and served as president in 1960-61. He was also a member of the Pulitzer Prizes Advisory Board; American Press Institute Advisory Board; Associated Press Managing Editors Association; and is a Fellow of Sigma Delta Chi. He has served on the board of trustees of Sarah Lawrence College, and since 1970 has been a member of the Board of Visitors of Tulane University. Mr. Catledge holds honorary degrees from Washington and Lee, Southwestern at Memphis, the University of Kentucky and Tulane University. His clubs are the National Press and Gridiron of Washington, and the Boston Club and New Orleans Country Club in New Orleans. He also is a member of International House, New Orleans. Mr. Catledge in April, 1968, received the first Carr V. Van Anda Award of the Ohio University School of Journalism, named for the managing editor of The Times who served from 1904 to 1932. The citation said Mr. Catledge had been "an innovator in news coverage and adherent to the finest standards of excellence in journalism," and had devised "new formats and new approaches to the news and the public need for knowledge." He is the author, with Joseph W. Alsop, Jr., of "The 168 Days,'' published in 1937, a study of President Roosevelt's unsuccessful effort to expand the Supreme Court; also "My Life and The Times," published in 1971, a volume of memoirs of his career. Mr. Catledge is now a resident of New Orleans, which he made his home city upon his retirement in 1970. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker on journalism and public affairs at schools, colleges and before civic groups, and associates himself with community affairs in his home city. Since his retirement, his activities have included: Visiting professor, Journalism and Political Science, Mississippi State University for the years 1971 through 1974; Visiting Lecturer, Journalism and Public Affairs, University of Arizona, 1971; Visiting Meeman Professor of Journalism, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1971-72; Chairman, Board of Trustees, New Orleans Foundation for Educational Television, 1973- SERIES I Introduction Series I of the Turner Catledge papers consists of records donated directly to Mississippi State University by Mr. or Mrs. Catledge from 1975 to Mrs. Catledge’s death in 2008. Included are biographical sketches; clippings; correspondence; manuscripts of articles, speeches, and the autobiography My Life and the Times; memorabilia; oral history interviews; phonograph records; photographs; publications; research material; and tapes. The inclu- sive dates are 1878 to 1983, but much of the series, especially the clippings, correspondence, and manuscripts, fall during the years from 1970 to 1983. The main topics, in addition to biographical data, are The New York Times and journalism. Among items of particular interest are. Catledge's reminiscences of his 1944 "Visit to the Pacific" war zone with The New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, his correspondence with fellow journalists, the oral history interview conducted with him by The New York Times Company, the phonograph recordings of his famous imitation of Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, and the drafts of his autobiography, which contain many details that were not included in the published version. The basic arrangement of the series is by document type. Outline A. Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, research material, miscellany B. Photographs 1. Framed 2. Unframed C. Publications D. Tapes/Phonograph Records 1. Videotapes 2. Audiotapes 3. Phonograph records E. Memorabilia 1. Certificates/Memorabilia a. Framed b. Unframed 2. Plaques 3. Scrapbook 4. Miscellaneous Memorabilia F. Additions 1. Memorial service for Turner Catledge, June 28, 1983 2. Designation of Catledge Papers as historic site in journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, March 27, 1986 3.
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