Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after nearly 26 years, Richmond's newspaper history completed a full circle. Negotiations were afoot to bring the Times-Dispatch and the News Leader under one management, as they were in 1914 when the Bryans owned them...
German military authorities let Correspondent Stowe send one dispatch out of Oslo by radio. (Next day the official Moscow radio quoted his story.) Then Leland Stowe fled the city. From Göteborg, Sweden, at week's end he reported his escape, reported from his own observation that German columns were pushing out from Oslo in all directions. In Stockholm, two days later, he told the whole fantastic story of Norway's occupation...
...Bryan family moved up to Virginia from Georgia before the Civil War, married well, prospered, got into the newspaper business. When Joseph Bryan died, he left Richmond's morning paper, the Times-Dispatch, to his sons. In 1909 Son John Stewart Bryan bought Richmond's evening paper, the News Leader. Five years later he sold the Times-Dispatch...
Slover of Norfolk. Meanwhile, the Times-Dispatch passed into the hands of a Norfolk publisher, Samuel LeRoy Slover. Already owner of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Slover was busily building up a little news empire in Tidewater Virginia. Before long he had the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, a Petersburg paper, radio stations in all three cities...
Like the Bryans, Publisher Slover had other interests-real estate, banks, the Norfolk & Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal} and his successor, lean, hawk-nosed John Dana Wise, the Times-Dispatch got back on its feet. Last year, with a circulation of 82,176, it was not far behind the News Leader...