Word: munsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...from his home, Bath, Me. Editor Dana invited him to work at the then fabulous salary of $50 per week. This rose to $20,000 a year during the many years that Mr. Mitchell penned the Sun's leading editorials, famed for their tart penetration. When the late Publisher Munsey purchased the Sun (1916) he retained Mr. Mitchell as editorial chief. Not until last year did Mr. Mitchell retire...
...Munsey's Will...
...year ago last week many people were puzzling their heads over the just-then-published will of the late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey. What on earth had inspired him, a man with no inkling or appreciation of art, to bequeath all but a trifle of his 40 millions? to the Metropolitan Museum...
Last week one of Mr. Munsey's best friends and oldest associates, Erman Jesse Ridgway, long president and director of companies publishing Everybody's, Adventure, Delineator, who now lives in retirement at Chula Vista, Calif., judged that the time had come for an explanation of the "mystery." In a eulogy of "the chief" upon the anniversary of his death, intended to "show from the inside how one of the big men of our craft worked and thought and felt," Mr. Ridgway wrote...