Not grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again.
Jean Gannett Williams' legacy was loaded with liabilitiesbut not of the financial sort. Her credentials were meager: one year's apprenticeship, one press junket through Europe. Buffed...
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