Word: dewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, William Thompson Dewart Jr., on the centenary of the New York Sun (see p. 24), of which he is secretary and his father editor-publisher; to Mrs. Catharine Ashbrook Smith. Wilmington, Del. socialite; in Alexandria...
...November day 30 years ago a young man named William Thompson Dewart, who is now president of the New York Sun, took a bulky envelope to an apartment in Manhattan's then-fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was ceremoniously received by an imperious little old lady, her sister and her daughter. The little old lady was Ida Mayfield Wood, whose husband, Col. Benjamin Wood, brother of onetime Mayor Fernando Wood of Manhattan, had died the year before. Col. Wood had been publisher of the New York Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news...
...Dewart had come, on behalf of the late publisher Frank A. Munsey, to buy the News for $340,000. At Widow Wood's insistence he had brought currency, new $1,000 bills. She loved to hoard and fondle large currency. (Her husband used to give her half of his winnings from the gaming tables of the Manhattan Club and Saratoga, as much as $75,000 at a time.) One by one, Mr. Dewart handed each bill to Mrs. Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma...
Among the Sun personnel are many stockholders (principally President William Thompson Dewart) who bought the paper from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which it was bequeathed by the late Publisher Frank Munsey...
...Manhattan, joined Frank Andrew Munsey's staff in 1903, remained closely associated with the publisher until the latter's death in 1925. Later he became a director of the Munsey-owned Sun on a perpetual roving assignment, detailed by the Sun's President William Thompson Dewart who said: "My only instructions are that you see everything and write about it in your own vein. To you in the future, the whole earth is a local story...