The Press: Annenberg Annals

When Moses Louis Annenberg two years ago produced $15,000,000 in cash and bought himself the 107-year-old Republican Philadelphia Inquirer, the Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage...

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