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...Elaine. Boss Lord's figures were within 50 votes of the official count. When Dana broke off relations with the Associated Press, it was Boss Lord who sent out a bucketful of wires and next day had all the national and foreign news he wanted. Not until Munsey bought the Sun did it abandon its own national news service-the Laffan News Bureau...
...reporter there had got the news past the censors by using the words Jack Ochre, and Boss Lord's correct interpretation of Jack Ochre as "yellow fever" gave the Sun a major scoop over its bitter enemies, Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World. When Munsey bought the Sun in 1916 its reputation for complete news coverage rivaled that of the Times...
...Munsey paid $2,468,000 for the Sun and Evening Sun, merged the latter with his New York Press. He moved the Sun to its present quarters in the Stewart Building on Broadway.* Then he bought the Herald, and for a time published the Sun as the Sun and New York Herald. But in 1920 he separated the two, changed the Sun over to the evening field, killed the Evening Sun. When he died in 1925 he bequeathed the Sun to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from which William T. Dewart and a group of other Sun employes bought...
Home again on the Tribune (which had been merged with Munsey's Herald) Arthur Draper worked in turn as foreign editor, assistant to the editor, finally as assistant editor, a somewhat anomalous position which was abolished after he vacated it last week...
...late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey scrapped seven Manhattan dailies during his career. *The estate of the late John Roll McLean owns also the troubled Washington Post, now in receivership. The Post's publisher, ousted last year, was John McLean's extravagant son Edward Beale ("Ned''). Last week "Ned's" estranged wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, in hope of buying the Post for her three children, was trying to raise $250,000 on her jewelry, including the "unlucky," Sunday-supplement-famed Hope Diamond...