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On any other paper the news would probably have rated Page One. But the Baltimore Sun is not any other paper: it is the Baltimore Sun. Consequently, the word was passed to Sun readers last week in a dignified "Announcement" on the editorial page: "After nine years as president of...
The Sun was founded in 1837 by an itinerant printer with the resounding name of Arunah Shepherdson Abell.
Against entrenched competition-six daily, nine weekly and two monthly papers -Abell prospered by offering the only penny paper in the field, and by a stubborn insistence on telling the truth in an era when most newspapers were for hire.
What drives Sam Newhouse is the urge to expand, and last week word leaked out that he was chasing one of the brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has...
Died. Harry C. Black, 69, Baltimore philanthropist and board chairman (since 1930) of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Sunpapers; of a heart attack; in Boynton Beach, Fla.