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...reporter. He is also a director of the Sunpapers, and is now conducting the management's negotiations with the Newspaper Guild. Most afternoons Mencken drops in at the Sun office, chats with cronies-President Paul Patterson, Editor-in-Chief John Owens, and a character called "The Bentztown Bard," who gets out a column of Biblical quotations, homely recipes and small-town chitchat...
...Pays to Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed for the occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
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