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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...
...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 in 1926, and the next year sold the Telegram to Roy Howard, setting the pattern followed by his son Tom 23 years later...
...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...
Night & Day. The new World-Telegram and the Sun got off to a fast start with a first-day run of 700,000 copies. Besides the jawbreaking name, the W-T-&-S retained both of the familiar logotypes: the Telly's lighthouse steadfastly dispelled the gloom of night while the Sun's sun heralded the break...