Oliver Saxon Gramling; Associated Press Executive
Oliver Saxon Gramling, 87, Associated Press news executive who began the wire service’s broadcast operations. Gramling, who worked for the AP for more than 40 years, also wrote a history for the news service’s centennial in 1948, “AP: The Story of News.” During his career, the news service went from no broadcast members at the start of World War II to more than 2,000. On Saturday in Eustis, Fla., of congestive heart failure.
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