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31: 264:, on November 26, 1873, to George Canning Drane and Mary Shipman. They had a son, Paul Drane Van Anda (born March 30, 1899). Van Anda died of a heart attack in 1945 immediately upon learning of his daughter's death. 239:, Van Anda (who had received a bulletin reporting a CQD (now SOS) call from the Titanic,) figured that a lack of communication from the ship meant that the worst had happened and printed a headline stating that the 251:, which he covered with a phone call and some journalistic invention. As his career progressed, it was said of him that "he is the most illustrious unknown man in America." According to a 343: 439: 376: 257:
profile piece, V.A. (as he was called) practiced "a fierce anonymity while bestowing fleeting fame on some and withholding it from others."
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Van Anda gave political and scientific news coverage the same zeal normally reserved for sports and celebrities. Fluent in
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gave the "Carr Van Anda Award" to recognize outstanding work by journalists during their careers.
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in 1912. While other newspapers were printing the White Star Line's ambiguous story about the
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to Frederick Van Anda and Mariah Davis. He moved to New York in order to become a
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Carr Van Anda Biography at E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University.
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He is referenced by Richard Gere's character in episode 7 of the BBC Drama
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On April 11, 1898, Van Anda married Louise Shipman Drane, who was born in
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in 1923. He famously corrected a mathematical error in a speech given by
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Georgetown, Ohio
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