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Last week in Manhattan the Sun celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Ben Day's idea. It got out a 104-page edition describing the history of the Sun from Day through Charles Anderson Dana down to the present ownership. Included was a reprint of the Sun's first issue...
...silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...
...Dana had been managing editor of the potent Tribune under Horace Greeley but had resigned because of repeated differences. For Dana, the country boy who had clerked in a Buffalo store, gone to Harvard for three years until eye-strain forced him out, ownership of the Sun was a third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur...
...Westalke, R. M. Campbell, Roger Potter, Nancy White, Persis White, Prescott Winkley, E. S. Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice Roberts, Adele Joan Lambrose, Charles A. Dale, Spencer D. Ortherger, Catherine Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Anastasia Seramovna, David Worcester, V. O. Jones...
Ushers are: H. Lawrence Bogart, chairman, Frederick H. White, Phillip Cushing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, R. A. Benson Jr., Harry Kern, H. G. Pearson, Jr., R. W. Paul, J. J. Thorndike, and G. A. Emerson...