Clark R. Mollenhoff; Won Pulitzer for Stories on Labor Racketeering

Clark R. Mollenhoff, 69, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his newspaper investigations on labor racketeering. He linked then-Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa to organized crime in his Pulitzer-winning stories on labor racketeering. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and is believed to have been killed because he threatened to reveal ties between the union and organized crime. Mollenhoff began his career in Iowa as a reporter for the Des Moines Register in 1941 and worked for Cowles Publications, parent company of the newspaper, until he began teaching at Washington & Lee University in 1976. Mollenhoff also wrote poetry, a book of which is to be published this fall by Iowa State University Press. He authored 11 other books, including critiques of the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter and a history of labor racketeering investigations. On March 2 in Lexington, Va., of cancer.