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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...
...time published the Sun as the Sun and New York Herald. But in 1920 he separated the two, changed the Sun over to the evening field, killed the Evening Sun. When he died in 1925 he bequeathed the Sun to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from which William T. Dewart and a group of other Sun employes bought...
...Dewart had been associated with Munsey since the day in 1898 when he applied for a job in Munsey's printing plant and for a place in the Congregational Church choir and got both. Within 18 months he was head bookkeeper of Munsey's Red Star News Co., by 1903 vice president, general manager and treasurer. After Munsey's death, Dewart's mutuali- zation plan divided the Sun stock among its employes. Under Publisher Dewart & Editor Frank M. O'Brien the Sun's circulation has risen from 257,000 to 300,000, third...
...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...