The Baltimore Sun; People Who shaped The Way We Live 1837-1987 150th Anniversary Issue [from front cover]
Gerard Huerta (Cover Illustration) Baltimore: The Baltimore Sun, 1987. 150th Anniversary Issue. Wraps. 196 pages, plus covers. Front cover folds out. Illustrations (some in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Among the topics covered include: Politics, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Sports, Education, Communications, Transportation, and Entertainment. Among the contributors are: John Barth, Ernest Furgurson, John Dorsey, Scott Shane, Sam Fulwood, Alice Steinbach, Tom Horton, Susan Reimer, Mike Bowler, Patrick McGuire, Luther Young, Fred Rasmussen, and Reg Murphy. The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/editor/publisher/owner Arunah Shepherdson Abell (often listed as "A. S. Abell") and two associates, William Moseley Swain, and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the Public Ledger the year before. The Abell family and descendants owned The Sun until 1910, when the local Black and Garrett families invested in the paper at the suggestion of former rival owner/publisher of The News, Charles H. Grasty, and they, along with Grasty gained a controlling interest; they retained the name A. S. Abell Company for the parent publishing company. That same year The Evening Sun was established under reporter, editor/columnist H. L. Mencken (1880–1956). From 1947 to 1986, The Sun was the owner and founder of Maryland's first television station, WMAR-TV (channel 2), which was a longtime affiliate of CBS until 1981, when it switched to NBC. The newspaper opened its first foreign bureau in London in 1924. Between 1955 and 1961, it added four new foreign offices. As Cold War tensions grew, it set up shop in Bonn, West Germany, in February 1955. (The bureau later moved to Berlin.) Eleven months later, The Sun opened a Moscow bureau, becoming one of the first U.S. newspapers to do so. A Rome office followed in July 1957, and in 1961, The Sun expanded to New Delhi. At its height, The Sun ran eight foreign bureaus, giving rise to its boast in a 1983 advertisement that "The Sun never sets on the world." The paper was sold by Reg Murphy in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of the Los Angeles Times. The same week, a 115 year old rivalry ended. The oldest paper in the city, the News American, a Hearst paper since the 1920s, but with roots to 1773, folded. A decade later in 1997, The Sun acquired the Patuxent Publishing Company, a local suburban newspaper publisher that had a stable of 15 weekly papers and a few magazines in several communities and counties. ] In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago. In 2014, it transferred its newspapers, including The Sun, to Tribune Publishing. Condition: Good / No Dust Jacket issued.
Keywords: Baltimore, Newspapers, Sesquicentennial, Civil Rights, Politics, Entertainment. Technology, Commerce, Religion, Agriculture, Sports, Recreation, Education, Communication, News Media, Transportation
[Book #84891]
Price: $45.00