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...late grocery tycoon, Frank Munsey, buyer and killer of newspapers, hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed...
...paper where tradition counts-but its tradition has not always been archconservative, nor have frontpage manifestos always been rare in it. In the great Charles A. Dana's day it frequently supported Democrats, and in Groceryman Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed...
Died. William Thompson Dewart, 68, since 1925 president of the arch-Republican New York Sun; in Manhattan. One of eleven children of a Scotch economist and unsuccessful railroad promoter, Dewart rose to the general managership of the late Frank Munsey's publishing enterprises at the age of 28. When Munsey died, Dewart came into control of the Sun, mutualized its ownership. He originated "Don't sell America short...
...worked as a waitress in Childs, in a sweatshop, as a nursemaid, a salesgirl, wardrobe mistress in a Minsky burlesque, and for 26 months "wrote, peddled, rewrote, repeddled, without so much as one word of encouragement." Then one day in 1912 she met Editor "Bob" Davis of Munsey's Magazine. " 'Fannie Hurst,' he said, after reading a story I came peddling, 'you can write!' " In the next 31 years she wrote 22 books...
...boxer himself. He fought his last fight at the age of 14 in a Boys' Club exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand lore and lies from every personality of the ring, and traveled 150,000 miles, including 13 trips to Europe for boxing news...