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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Age: 77 †
Born: 1891
Born: September 12
Died: 1968
Died: December 11
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