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- <text id=89TT2010>
- <title>
- Aug. 07, 1989: Died:Herman ("Hank") Greenspun
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 07, 1989 Diane Sawyer:Is She Worth It?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 44
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- <p> DIED. Herman ("Hank") Greenspun, 79, blunt, outspoken
- publisher of the Las Vegas Sun; in Las Vegas. Greenspun bought
- the newspaper in 1950 with a $1,000 down payment and launched
- a front-page column, "Where I Stand," that bristled with strong,
- even outrageous opinion. In a 1950s piece, he predicted that a
- victim of Senator Joseph McCarthy's denunciations would
- assassinate McCarthy and recommended that the Senator commit
- suicide first.
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- </body></article>
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