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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...
...seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World, Roy W. Howard of the New York Telegram and 25 other Scripps-Howard newspapers, W. T. Dewart of the New York Sun, also General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; also Editor Carr Van Anda of the New York Times, Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, H. S. Pollard and John H. Tennant of the New York Evening World and Marc Rose...
...Manhattan. Up to last week that was true. Then Chairman Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard organization announced that he had bought the New York Telegram, for a price not named, from the man who only lately acquired it (together with the N. Y. Sun), William T. Dewart, longtime henchman of its late publisher, Frank A. Munsey (TIME, Oct. 11) To the Telegram's 200,000 readers, Mr. Howard, smart resident of New York, said: ". . . No radical changes . . . our nationwide experience...
When the late Frank A. Munsey, as head of a string of cut-rate grocery stores, first began to dream of newspaper grandeur, there entered his employ a young Canadian named William T. Dewart. Mr. Munsey owned the Mohican Hotel in New London, Conn. Mr. Dewart became a bookkeeper there. Last week, aged 51, Mr. Dewart ap- peared as the purchaser of the late Mr. Munsey's New York Sun and New York Evening Telegram, together with the Mohican Hotel and other New London properties. Somehow Mr. Dewart had financed the purchase individually, even as Mr. Munsey financed...