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Word: dapper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours after the staff had been told, the second oldest Manhattan paper† ran its obituary under an eight-column banner on Page One: "The New York Sun has been sold to the New York World-Telegram . . . Today's issue will be the [Sun's) last. . ." Shrewd, dapper Roy W. Howard, 67, boss of the 19 Scripps-Howard papers, had bought the setting Sun as swiftly and silently as 19 years before he bought the Pulitzers' disintegrating World (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in the Antiques Room | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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