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For a man who has done so much in a field where the tools of self-promotion are so irresistibly at hand, Gannett was a surprisingly little-known man, even in the communities he served. "Although he owned the Times for 30 years," said a Hartford Timesman, "if he walked through the business section it is doubtful whether two people would have recognized him." But one measure of Frank Gannett's success was the fact that his papers last week ran their own staff-written editorials on their publisher's death.