 The Kansas native, DePauw University graduate (class of 1935), and World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S.Naval Reserve pursued a six-decade-long career in journalism that included work for the United Press new agency, as news director of WIRE-AM in Indianapolis, and in various editorial and publishing positions at the "Star" and "News" before he succeeded his father, Eugene C. Pulliam, as publisher of the two newspapers.During Eugene S. Pulliam's tenure as publisher of the "Star", it received two Pulitzer Prizes; one in 1975 for a series of articles on police corruption in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, and another in 1991 for investigation of medical malpractice in Indiana.