Word: munsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the New York Herald was sold to Frank A. Munsey, the Paris Herald was tossed into the deal. To Munsey it was an unexpected windfall; the war, with its tide of Yanks, had swollen circulation to 400,000 and brought untabulated prosperity. Munsey found a cool $1,000,000 cash in the Paris Herald's bank account. But the prosperity was short-lived. Munsey pared the Paris budget to the marrow, handed the paper over as a dubious dividend when he sold the New York Herald in 1924 to Ogden Reid's New York Tribune...
...Miss Helen Trask. 58, modish but motherly mistress in the third and fourth grades at the Munsey Park School in Manhasset, N.Y. A disciple of the learning-by-doing philosophy, Miss Trask keeps her classroom humming with activity. Most mornings begin with a "report period" in which her pupils exchange ideas or tell each other stories. After that, the class's regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they...
...permitted to occur. While competitors took columns, the Sun took only ten words to report an era's end in 1897: "Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the Sun, died yesterday afternoon." Under able editors, the Sun carried on until 1916, but the great fire slowly died. Then Frank Munsey, chain-store magnate and journalistic )luebeard, bought the paper. He folded Dana's evening edition, moved the morning edition to the evening and on his death in 1925 bequeathed the fading paper (and his Telegram) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. William T. Dewart, Munsey's general manager...
...Editor Speed continued to "mister" his staffers, including City Editor Bartnett, though 60% of them had worked for the Sun for 15 years or more. When he entered the museumlike quiet of the too-neat city room, Speed snuffed out his cigarette because that was the rule in Mr. Munsey's day, and "habits are hard to break...