Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, circulation had soared to 43,000. In 29 years under Dana, ex-managing editor of Greeley's Tribune and onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the Sun shone brighter than ever before or since, was famed as the "newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly...