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I know that plenty of you remember the good old days when G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> was still a newspaper. Many of you have written, or called to let us know that you were once a G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> news boy or girl. Some of you even credit your years selling G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> with some level of your success in business and life in general. Robin Van Auken’s latest book: <a title=”Sunday GRIT: A Newspaper Legacy” href=””>
<em>Sunday G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span>: A Newspaper Legacy</em>
</a> pays tribute to G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span>’s founder, Dietrick Lamade, and the incredible journalistic legacy that is GRIT, which is alive and well today.</p>
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</em>’s 136 pages are packed with details on G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span>’s amazing legacy, starting with the purchase of the struggling newspaper supplement and its evolution into a national periodical with more than a million copies in circulation.</p>
<p>While the story itself is fascinating to me, I was also mesmerized by all the historic photos, advertisements and cartoons that were reproduced in Van Auken’s book. Did you know that one successful marketing campaign for G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> involved posters that portrayed frog-like caricatures in unlikely poses, along with quirky text that seldom made sense? Or women’s silk stockings were only 69 cents a pair in the 1930s? Did you know that Sylvania unveiled the Blue Dot flashcube in 1966 … to the great delight of amateur photographers around the world? All of this and more is part of G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span>’s rich 126-year-old <a title=”history” href=”http://www.grit.com/grit-history.aspx”>history</a> … and all of it is chronicled in <em>Sunday G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span>: A Newspaper Legacy</em>.</p>
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<p>This book makes a perfect gift for any G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> fan … you can wrap it in a cool reproduction G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> <a title=”bag” href=””>bag</a> for the former G<span style=”font-size: 13px;”>RIT</span> carrier on your Christmas list. You can find both the book and the bag at our <a title=”online store” href=”https://www.grit.com/store/”>online store</a>.</p>
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<a href=”http://www.grit.com/biographies/oscar-h-will” target=_self>Hank Will</a>
<em> raises hair sheep, heritage cattle and many varieties of open-pollinated corn with his wife, Karen, on their rural Osage County, Kansas farm. His home life is a perfect complement to his professional life as editor in chief at GRIT and Capper’s Farmer magazines. Connect with him on </em>
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