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Bags & Burrows. The escape plan that John related to Fellow Prisoner Peter Howard, a British airman, was inspired by one of history's oldest gambits in military deception: the Trojan horse...
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...
...Great-nephew of Poet John Keats. † Oldest: The New York Post (founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801). *Who also writes editorials for Hearst's New York Mirror...
After two days of study, officials at Fogg Museum have decided to attempt to unroll a 2,000-year-old leather scroll believed to contain the oldest Old Testament text in existence...
Kliment Voroshilov, one of Stalin's oldest & best buddies, a Politburo member since...