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Subject: Old newspaper column - Foxy and Freddy
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: fstokens-ga
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Posted: 13 Aug 2002 21:18 PDT
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Question ID: 54347
I am looking for a newspaper column called "Foxy and Freddy" that was
written around the 1930's.  The authors were a husband-and-wife team,
Alice (Fox) Pitts and Fredric G. Pitts.  The column was syndicated,
but I don't know what newspapers it ran in, or the exact time period. 
I am looking for a complete citation (newspaper name, date, page
number) for any example of this newspaper column.
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Subject: Re: Old newspaper column - Foxy and Freddy
From: scribe-ga on 14 Aug 2002 12:02 PDT
 
Fstokens,
Finding this information online may prove difficult. I did determine
that a reference work, The Biographical Dictionary of American
Newspaper Columnists, covers the subject from the Civil War on. It's
available from Amazon.com (and from other online booksellers, I
assume) at a rather hefty price. My local library does not have it.
Might your local library have it?
Subject: Re: Old newspaper column - Foxy and Freddy
From: fstokens-ga on 15 Aug 2002 13:07 PDT
 
Thanks for the suggestion!  My library does have this book, but it
only seems to list the "major" columnists, and the Pitts weren't
listed.  :(
Subject: Re: Old newspaper column - Foxy and Freddy
From: justaskscott-ga on 15 Aug 2002 13:12 PDT
 
Scribe had a good idea, but I have checked this reference work, and
found no entry for either Mr. or Mrs. Pitts.  I also wrote the
American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), for which Mrs. Pitts was
the first executive director, and obtained a friendly response but no
helpful information.  (Apparently someone else had written them with
the same question last year -- I suspect I know who ;-) )
Subject: Re: Old newspaper column - Foxy and Freddy
From: luciaphile-ga on 15 Aug 2002 20:00 PDT
 
I checked "The Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper
Columnists."  Nothing on either of your parties.

New York Times September 27, 1973 (p42)
The NY Times Obit for Frederic G. Pitts lists the various papers that
he worked for (New York Sun, New York Herald Tribune, New Bedford
Standard, Vancouver British Columbia World, Washington Post, Buffalo
News, and the Wilmington News Journal), and mentions the column, but
only says that it was syndicated.

I found a lot more on Alice Fox Pitts (She is in various editions of
"Who's Who of American Women" (1st through 5th editions) and in Vol. 7
of "Who Was Who in America"), but none of the reference sources
indicate what papers the column ran in.  She also wrote a history of
the ASNE called appropriately enough, "50 Years of ASNE," Alice Fox
Pitts, American Society of Newspaper Editors: 1974, no ISBN #.

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