It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy was detained by police and arrested on April 15, and two journalists for the Associated Press also reported being struck by police with batons.

* In Tokyo, a Ghetto of Geeks from Washington Post

It was during this time that Hesser's writings started appearing in newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post.

Desson Howe, in this review for the Washington Post praised the film's style: " Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.

In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation.

* Powell, Michael, " Boston's Big Dig Awash in Troubles ", Washington Post, 2004-11-19, Retrieved on August 9, 2006.

The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".

" In a 2005 Washington Post interview, Jones dodged political questions and even admitted that he was embarrassed by " some of the more vitriolic comments " made by his predecessors.

The newspapers include The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta Constitution.

*" Wide Hunt For 27 Men In Six Navy Planes ", The Washington Post, December 7, 1945.

*" Fire Signals Seen In Area Of Lost Men ", The Washington Post, December 9, 1945.

*" Efforts To Locate Missing Ship Fail ", The Washington Post, December 6, 1925.

*" Lighthouse Keepers Seek Missing Ship ", The Washington Post, December 7, 1925.

*" 53 On Missing Craft Are Reported Saved ", The Washington Post, December 13, 1925.

*" Cold High Winds Do $ 25, 000 Damage ", The Washington Post, March 11, 1918.

*" Collier Cyclops Is Lost ; 293 Persons On Board ; Enemy Blow Suspected ", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.

*" U. S. Consul Gottschalk Coming To Enter The War ", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.

*" Cyclops Skipper Teuton, ' Tis Said ", The Washington Post, April 16, 1918.

*" Fate Of Ship Baffles ", The Washington Post, April 16, 1918.

*" Steamer Met Gale On Cyclops ' Course ", The Washington Post, April 19, 1918.

*" Hunt On For Pirates ", The Washington Post, June 21, 1921

*" Comb Seas For Ships ", The Washington Post, June 22, 1921.

*" Port Of Missing Ships Claims 3000 Yearly ", The Washington Post, July 10, 1921.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

A writer in Seattle, researching an article on Jeff Bezos, the founder of the then-fledgling Amazon. com, came across the " Hapworth " publication date, told his sister, a journalist for the Washington Business Journal, who wrote an article about the upcoming book.

The Washington Post staff writer Hal Hinson would disparagingly comment in an aside during a review of Jarmusch's Mystery Train ( 1989 ) that in the director's debut, " the only talent he demonstrated was for collecting egregiously untalented actors ".

He attended George Washington University in Washington, D. C. at the start of the 1930s, before dropping out and beginning his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories.

He was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and his wife Courtenay Washington ( née Davidge ), a fashion writer and beauty consultant.

After his release in September 1974, he and his family resettled in Caracas, but then Letelier decided to head for Washington D. C., at the proposal of American writer Saul Landau.

The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington D. C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, incredulous that Bachman and King were not one and the same, located publisher's records at the Library of Congress and discovered a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.

His son James Thomas Flexner was a prolific writer ; one of his works was an extensive biography of George Washington.

Though not listed, another conservative writer who trained there was New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks, a Washington Times editorial writer in the 1980s.

* January 31 – George Washington Cable, American writer ( b. 1844 )

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

The Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday said: “" El Norte " was seminal, both for its graceful blend of classical narrative and magic realism, and the power with which it brought an otherwise invisible world to life .”

He was on the staff of Senator Lee Metcalf, a research columnist for Jack Anderson, author of Six Days of the Condor ( filmed as Three Days ...) and numerous other spy and crime novels, currently a writer for Politics Daily, resident of Washington DC area.

Other former residents include Frank Lesser, a writer for the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and Nate Beeler, the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Examiner whose cartoons also appear in The San Francisco Examiner ; USA Today ; and The Los Angeles Times.

The writer Henry Wiencek, in his 2003 book An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, argues that Martha Washington owned a mulatto slave, Ann Dandridge, who was her half-sister.

*" The fascinating life of an English writer, essayist and ' opium eater '", Michael Dirda, Washington Post, December 30, 2010

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

* November 14-Booker T. Washington, writer and educator ( born 1856 )

* January 31-George Washington Cable, American writer ( born 1844 )

Fumento has been a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, a legal writer for the Washington Times, a science correspondent for Reason magazine, editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and was the first “ National Issues ” reporter for Investor ’ s Business Daily.