While at the Seattle Times, he won the paper's first Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1950.

During World War II, he served as an infantry regiment reconnaissance platoon leader in both North Africa and Italy.

[2] While at the Seattle Times, he won the paper's first Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1950.

His articles provided evidence that the Washington State Un-American Activities Committee suppressed evidence that cleared University of Washington professor Melvin Rader of false charges of being a Communist.

[5][6] Guthman died August 31, 2008, at his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age of 89.