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2 unusual facts about The New York Sun


Eduwonkette

"Eduwonkette" told an interviewer for The New York Sun that she preserves her anonymity because "Universities expect us to devote our time exclusively to research, and blogging is a hard sell in that environment," she said.

John Henry Coatsworth

In the now defunct newspaper The New York Sun one Cuban American scholar criticized Coatsworth's preface to a book on "The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century" on the grounds that Coatsworth's claim that Cuba's economy was only one of two in Latin America that grew in the 1980s was based on false data supplied by Cuban institutions that Coatsworth ought to have known were mouthpieces for government propaganda.


An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter has been hailed as "thrilling" (The New York Sun) and "utterly astonishing" (San Francisco Chronicle), a "memorable performance...whose tone and oddly compelling vision are distinctly Aira's own" (The Los Angeles Times).

Burleigh Cruikshank

Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.

Flic Story

Gary Giddins, printing his review from the August 16, 2005 issue of The New York Sun, praised the film as "the most interesting and resonant" of Derays work, and gave particular credit to Trintignant's "hair-trigger" performance.

Garrett P. Serviss

Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of the The New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana.

Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy's April 1, 2008 column in The New York Sun, "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," described her making the controversial decision to let her son take the New York City Subway home alone.


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Bob Westfall

At the end of the 1941 season, Westfall was a consensus All-American, selected as the first-team fullback by Grantland Rice, the Associated Press ("AP"), United Press, All-America Board, Collier's, the Newspaper Enterprise Association ("NEA"), the International News Service, the Central Press Association, the New York Sun and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau

He is sometimes said to have been a last-minute substitute for Mikhail Chigorin, who was apparently dropped after a dispute with the organizer Prince André Dadian, but Spinrad pointed out that this is unlikely because Moreau and Chigorin were both listed among the 14 competitors in a newspaper story in "The New York Sun" and "Salt Lake Herald" from 1902 December 21, several weeks before the tournament started on 1903 February 10.

Eddie Mahan

In 1927, George Trevor of the New York Sun selected an all-time backfield made up of Mahan, Walter Eckersall, Jim Thorpe, and Willie Heston of Michigan.