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Next day, only two hours after the staff had been told, the second oldest Manhattan paper† ran its obituary under an eight-column banner on Page One: "The New York Sun has been sold to the New York World-Telegram . . . Today's issue will be the [Sun's) last. . ." Shrewd, dapper Roy W. Howard, 67, boss of the 19 Scripps-Howard papers, had bought the setting Sun as swiftly and silently as 19 years before he bought the Pulitzers' disintegrating World (TIME, March...
...There was a more important reason than rising costs: the lackluster Sun had stood still journalistically for decades. At its death, circulation was 261,000, barely 4,000 more than in 1926; it was eighth in Manhattan's circulation field of nine. The combined circulations of the World-Telegram (342,000) and the Sun, Publisher Dewart said, were "enough to assure the economic stability of one newspaper but not enough for two . . ." Advertisers, sensing the Sun's slow eclipse, had dropped more than 1,500,000 lines in 1949. In a decade, its share of the New York...
...social welfare plan since Virginia's Santa Claus. To its credit, the Sun printed plenty of A.P. news and prided itself on its financial, art and education pages, but it pinched pennies covering local news and often did not move as fast as it should. Once, when a World-Telegram reporter rushed through the Sun's city room to cover a stabbing, an amazed Sunman asked him if he was Frank Ward O'Malley because "nobody had hurried [here] since O'Malley left...
ANGUS WARD ALIVE - OR ELSE! W35 the head on La Moore's opening editorial, boxed across the top of the New York World-Telegram's editorial page, and echoed by the other 18 Scripps-Howard newspapers (total circ...
...Page One, Howard's New York World-Telegram demanded: "Mr. President, what are you going to do? Get him out or let him rot?" At President Truman's press conference, Merriman Smith, of the Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much...