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Court. There was. meanwhile, many another offer less altruistic, addressed not to the employes but to the owners and the Surrogate. Chain-Publisher Paul Block, who is said to have bid $10,000,000 for the Sunday and morning Worlds last August, rushed from the Pacific Coast into court to...
From Florida, Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett also proposed to top the Scripps-Howard bid, and to keep the World papers alive. And Publisher William Griffin of the New York Enquirer (a paper so obscure that few are aware it has changed from Sunday to daily) wanted to bid. Surrogate...
Then came the word: The World had been sold to Scripps-Howard. The hubbub grew again. Some of the men drifted away, headbent, stunned, dully meditative. Others, a little raucously, encircled City Editor Barrett with "For He's a Jolly
Good Fellow"-and passed the hat to buy him a watch. Meanwhile Reporter Lindesay Parrott, an ace newswriter of the World, tapped out the World's death notice for its last edition. An editorial was pulled out and in its place was put Editor Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory...
Scripps-Howard. "To those two immortals in American newspaper history, Joseph Pulitzer and E. W. Scripps, we respectfully dedicate the first issue of the World-Telegram today." So wrote little Publisher Howard in further celebration of his purchase last week. It was fine as a gesture but all newspapermen recognized...