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Victor Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who died last August, was very different from Frank A. Munsey; but they were alike in being heirless. Mr. Munsey never married. Mr. Lawson's wife, childless, became an eccentric recluse. Both men realized the difficulty of passing on titanic newspaper properties. Mr. Munsey consulted friends. Mr. Lawson consulted nobody. Soon after his funeral, when the will was taken out of Mr. Lawson's vault, at the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., it was found that the Bank had been made trustee of the Daily News, which...