Word: luebeard
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...columns, the Sun took only ten words to report an era's end in 1897: "Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the Sun, died yesterday afternoon." Under able editors, the Sun carried on until 1916, but the great fire slowly died. Then Frank Munsey, chain-store magnate and journalistic )luebeard, bought the paper. He folded Dana's evening edition, moved the morning edition to the evening and on his death in 1925 bequeathed the fading paper (and his Telegram) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. William T. Dewart, Munsey's general manager, bought both papers...