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...being, in Arthur Brisbane's phrase, "sold with the plantation." For Colonel Nelson, was only one of three publishers of important newspapers to evince in his will that he did not care a fiddlestick what became of his newspaper after he had gone. "To be sold." Frank Munsey and Victor Lawson used the same phrase...
...literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those who know nothing whatever about it." The $11,000,000 realized by the sale of the paper is all to be used to buy art works for Kansas City. It is perhaps fortunate that...
Buried. Frank A. Munsey, late famed Manhattan publisher (TIME, Jan. 4, MILESTONES), in the cemetery of his native village, Lisbon Falls, Me., after reposing in a vault at Woodlawn Cemetery, Manhattan, for the last five months...
...part of the investment as their honor. And it was against his instincts to "sell out"; once he had built something, he kept it. He did not barter, destroy, amalgamate and otherwise treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner of his late contemporary, Publisher Munsey. A publisher of the highest order, he remained always a newspaperman himself, sticking to the platform that he wrote for the first issue of the Penny Press: "We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice or money ... or fight, lie or wrangle.... The newspaper should simply...
...virile political flavor which formerly distinguished it. Rural newspaper have come to rely more and more upon advertising for their support. And since advertisers are particularly capricious in bestowing their patronage, experience has taught the rural editor to curb his native vigor. The doctrine preached by the late Mr. Munsey has triumphed...