Word: danae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First issue of the New York Sun under Charles A. Dana...
...when Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, circulation had soared to 43,000. In 29 years under Dana, ex-managing editor of Greeley's Tribune and onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the Sun shone brighter than ever before or since, was famed as the "newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly...
With his vigorous news pages, Dana ran blistering editorials against Boss Tweed, the Crédit Mobilier and the Whisky Ring. Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
...Dana's orders, the Sun missed one big piece of news that Divine Providence permitted to occur. While competitors took columns, the Sun took only ten words to report an era's end in 1897: "Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the Sun, died yesterday afternoon." Under able editors, the Sun carried on until 1916, but the great fire slowly died. Then Frank Munsey, chain-store magnate and journalistic )luebeard, bought the paper. He folded Dana's evening edition, moved the morning edition to the evening and on his death in 1925 bequeathed the fading paper...