 "The Washington Post March" was on the program of The Post's Amateur Authors Association awards event for its public schools essay contest. Shortly before this event, which was held at the Smithsonian with the Marine Band providing the musical entertainment, Post copublisher Frank Hatton met up with John Philip Sousa and asked him to compose a march for the occasion. The composer agreed and dedicated his new work in The Post's honor. Post publisher Stilson Hutchins, whose interest in the Mergenthaler typesetting machine had become a passion, sold the newspaper to Frank Hatton, a former Postmaster General, and Beriah Wilkins, a former congressman from Ohio, in order to devote his time to the linotype's national promotion. |
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