Herb Kraus, the Chicago publicist who represented Inland Steel, Rev. Martin Luther King, Vienna Sausages and taught PR at Columbia College for three decades, died May 20. He was 95.
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Herb KrausThe former Army combat correspondent and Purple Heart Award recipient launched Herbert M. Kraus & Co. in the 1950s with American Jewish Committee, State of Israel Bonds and Chicago Committee for the Truman Presidential Library and Museum among charter clients, according to press reports.
Known for his quick wit and sharp writing skills, Kraus hired many of the Windy City’s leading PR people, recruiting many of them right from college.
In 1973, he merged his firm into Manning, Selvage and Lee and managed its Midwest office.
Kraus took the helm of Kraus Dunham Nickolich PR ten years later and then re-established it under his own name before retiring in 2007.
In 2006, the Publicity Club of Chicago honored Kraus with its Golden Trumpet Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Frank Ramos, who headed the PR department for the doomed-to-fail New York Jets for 39 years, died on Jan. 27. He was 87.
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Andy Stanton, who was director of finance at Stanton PR, died Nov. 12 in New York. He was 39.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
