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The clapboard colonial mansion included 15 bedrooms and 14 baths (eleven full baths), a seven-car garage, a tennis court with a tennis pavilion, a rose garden and a guest house – on 13.35 acres. The 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m) waterfront mansion had originally been built for clothing merchant
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player, at one point winning over $ 470,000 in a game with an oil baron, a steel magnate, and an entertainer. He was also a member of a social club, the precursor to the
Algonquin Round Table known as the Thanatopsis Inside Straight and Pleasure Club. He was inducted into the
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have been printed by newspapers for many centuries, Swope established the first modern op-ed page in 1921. When he took over as editor in 1920, he realized that the page opposite the editorials was "a catchall for book reviews, society boilerplate, and obituaries." He
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It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in
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John S. Browning Sr. in 1911 and originally named Kidd's Rocks. It was purchased in 1921 by
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However, Swope did not buy Land's End until late 1928. The more likely explanation that ties Swope to
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in 1922. As an example of investigative journalism, it was ranked 81st of the top 100 journalism stories of the 20th century by New York
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in 1917 for a series of articles that year entitled "Inside the German Empire" The articles formed the basis for a book released in 1917 entitled
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for $ 17.5 million. "They misrepresented themselves", Payson told
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in 1979 and his son Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr. in 1981.
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