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Word: pharcellus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sun Hears an Echo | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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