were published in the Pulliam newspapers. They also coauthored South America, Land of the Future, Jewel of the Past (1951). Nina (Mason) Pulliam died on March 26, 1997. Career Early career After graduating from DePauw University in 1910, Pulliam moved to Atchison, Kansas, where he began working at the Atchison Daily Champion. A few months later, he received a job to become a reporter at the Kansas City Star, at that time the largest newspaper in the lower Midwest, and moved to Kansas City. In 1912, at the age of twenty-three, Pulliam returned to Atchison to become the editor and publisher of the Daily Champion. He is believed to have been one of the youngest newspaper editors in the United States at that time. With financial backing from his first wife's family, Pulliam purchased the Daily Champion, which was the first of forty-six newspapers he eventually owned. In 1915, Pulliam sold the Daily Champion and bought the Franklin (Indiana) Star. In 1923, he sold the Franklin Star and purchased the Lebanon (Indiana) Reporter. Publisher After moving to Oklahoma in 1929, Pulliam bought six newspapers and established the Oklahoma Newspapers, Inc. During the Great Depression, Pulliam operated twenty-three newspapers and in 1930 became president of Vincennes Newspapers, the predecessor to Central Newspapers, Inc., a holding company he formed in 1934. During his sixty-three years as a newspaper publisher, Pulliam operated forth-six newspapers. He subsequently expanded his holdings through acquisitions of newspapers in the eastern United States (in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), in the southeast (in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida), and in the Midwest (in Indiana and Kentucky). Central Newspapers holdings included newspaper outlets in several Indiana cities and in Arizona. As president of Central Newspapers, Inc., Pulliam's publishing holdings came to include the Franklin (Indiana) Evening Star; the Lebanon Reporter; the Indianapolis Star, which he acquired in 1944; the Muncie Star; the Arizona Republic and its one-time rival the Phoenix Gazette, both of which were purchased in 1946; the Indianapolis News, acquired in 1948; and the Huntington Herald-Press. Other business interests Prior to 1960, Pulliam was head of radio stations WAOV and WIRE in Indiana and KTAR in Arizona. He also served three successive terms as a member of the Associated Press’s board of directors, from 1961 to 1969, as well as a vice president of the organization. In addition, Pulliam was a major stockholder of the New York