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Pulitzer winner Walter Mears dies, AP’s ‘Boy on the Bus’

FILE - President Bill Clinton is interviewed by Associated Press reporters, White House correspondent Terry Hunt, second from right and AP special correspondent Walter Mears, aboard Air Force One en route to Brunei, on Nov. 14, 2000. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) FILE - Walter R. Mears of the Associated Press, is shown, April 3, 1969 at the Capitol in Washington. The Washington Monument is in the background. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File) Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Walter R. Mears, shown March 12, 1999 in Washington. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo, File) Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Walter R. Mears, shown March 12, 1999 in Washington. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Walter R. Mears discusses voting results for a television feed, Tuesday evening Nov. 2, 2004, in New York. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File) FILE - In this 1976 file photo, Associated Press Special Correspondent Walter R. Mears, right, talks with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in Concord, N.H., before the New Hampshire Primary. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo, File) File - Walter R. Mears, chief political writer for The Associated Press in Washington, receives a congratulatory telephone call after he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential primaries, campaign, and election, April 19, 1977. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor, File)