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Autograph; 1 pages; Typed Note Signed by Wilbur "Bill" Elston to David J. Winton on Printed Minneapolis Star/Tribune Letterhead (6" x 9"). Chipped at bottom corner, toned strip at top edge, otherwise Very Good condition. "August 23, 1961 // Mr. David Winton / Chairman of the Board / Winton Lumber Company / 3100 West Lake Street / Minneapolis, Minnesota // Dear Dave: / Here are the clippings of Graham Hovey's articles I promised / to send you. I'm happy to know you enjoyed them. // Incidentally, I think we are going to buy the Herald Tribune / service, and I have asked that if the deal goes through I / have the first opportunity to use Rollie's pieces on the / editorial pages. // Sincerely, / Bill // WE:gh" Wilbur "Bill" E. elston was an editor for the Minneapolis Star / Tribune and later Editorials Editor for fifteen years at The Detroit News. He eventually retired from newspaper journalism to teach his craft at Wayne State University. David J. Winton, born into a family that had been in the lumber business for a generation, became head of the Winton companies with his brother Charles. Among the Winton companies were the Winton Lumber Company, Winton Company, The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., United Lumber Yards, Winton Lumber Sales Company, Kenwood Oil Company, Amador Lumber Company, Winton Oregon Timber Company, Addison Oil Company, Baldridge Logging Company, Inc., and Siskiyou-Minnesota Timber Company. He was a member of the Canadian-American Committee and the British-American Committee and also a Trustee of the National Planning Association. He was a founding member of the Minnesota Citizens Committee on Crime and Delinquency. The letter refers to his son-in-law Rowland Evans. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family.; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 43662
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