Abraham Jacob Hollandersky
Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky (December 3, 1888 – November 1, 1966) became the second American boxer to win the Panamanian Heavyweight Title when he defeated Californian Jack Ortega in nine rounds in Panama City on May 30, 1913. American congressmen, Naval personnel, and canal workers were among the crowd of nearly two thousand who watched Hollandersky gain victory over an opponent who outweighed him by over thirty-five pounds. The "New York Times" announced Hollandersky's best known win the following morning.
Ed Koterba
Koterba left the "Washington Post" in 1955 to concentrate on his column "A Bit of Washington". He also became a frequent contributor to "Roll Call" and began writing a second column, "On Tour" in which he chronicled his family's adventures on their trailer tours of the United States. It was picked up by the Hall Syndicate in 1958, who billed Koterba as a "modern Ernie Pyle" and had plans to send him to various far-flung US Armed Forces bases around the world to cover the life of the GIs stationed there. The project came to an end in 1959 when Scripps Howard offered Koterba a job as their nationally syndicated Washington columnist to replace Frederick Othman who had died in December 1958. The new column, "Assignment Washington" ran until Koterba's death in 1961 at the age of 42. He was killed on 27 June 1961 along with four other people, including the journalist Ned Trimble of the "Kansas City Star", in the crash of private plane off the coast of La Push, Washington.