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Alvin Scott McCoy (Kansas, July 14th 1903 - Cheney, Ks.) was a journalist of "The Kansas City Star" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for local reporting and an outstanding work published the previous year about a series of articles that drove C.Wesley Roberts to resign his RNC chairmanship.〔(1954 Winners, Awards, The Pulitzer Prizes website )〕 == Biography == Alvin Scott McCoy (born on July 14, 1903, in Cheney, Ks.) On his first professional years, he received an A.B. degree in 1925 from the university of Kansas at Lawrence, majoring in chemistry. After spending two years at Ford agency in Dodge City, Kansas, and one year traveling around the world in 1928/29. McCoy got first employed in newspaper work as a reporter of the ‘’Evening Eagle’’ in Wichita, Kansas.〔 He spent eighteen months on this newspaper and on the Wichita ‘’Morning Eagle’’. In November, 1930, he joined the ‘’Kansas City Star’’ as a reporter and worked on general assignments. Years later, McCoy served as the Star’s pacific War correspondent in 1945. That same year he became also a Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City Star in wich he covered state politics, legislature, news, features and some editorial writing as well as scientific stories. In the 1954 the Board members decided that the Pulitzer Prize in the Local Reporting, No Edition Time category should go to Alvin Scott McCoy of the Kansas City Star from Missouri, “for a series of exclusive stories with led to the resignation under fire of C.Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman. Roberts was accused of collecting a $10,000 commission on the sale of a hospital to the State of Kansas which the state already owned. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alvin scott mccoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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