{"id":2297,"date":"2014-03-18T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2014-07-16T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:46:09","slug":"wortsman-eugene-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"WORTSMAN, EUGENE, 1921-1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; public relations executive. Born&#8211; January 21, 1921, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Joseph M. and Lillian (Ash) Wortsman. Married&#8211; Catherine Ann Parise, November 25, 1960. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1939-1942. Reporter, Birmingham Post Herald, 1946-1956; Washington correspondent, Post Herald, Rocky Mountain News, 1964-1966; director, Washington office, Daniel J. Edelman and Associates, 1966-1967; federal grants consultant, 1967-1970; vice-president of Kal &amp; Merrick, Inc., 1968-1970; federal programs consultant, 1970; editor and publisher, White House Newsletter, 1969-. Died June 15, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the East; Who&#8217;s Who in Public Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phenix City. Birmingham, Ala.; Vulcan Press, 1955.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New Frontier Joke Book. New York; MacFadden Books, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; public relations executive. Born&#8211; January 21, 1921, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Joseph M. and Lillian (Ash) Wortsman. Married&#8211; Catherine Ann Parise, November 25, 1960. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1939-1942. Reporter, Birmingham Post Herald, 1946-1956; Washington correspondent, Post Herald, Rocky Mountain News, 1964-1966; director, Washington office, Daniel J. Edelman and Associates, 1966-1967; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}