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Kept cash flowing for newspaper war

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From the purchase of the Arkansas Democrat through the newspaper war with the Arkansas Gazette and later the merger of the two Little Rock newspapers, Allen Berry was at the side of Walter E. Hussman Jr., making the financials work as WEHCO Media's chief financial officer.

Berry, 72, died last Wednesday in Germantown, Tenn, where he had moved with his wife Cathy, after he retired from WEHCO Media, Inc. after 37 years.

"He was there all along," Hussman, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, said Thursday about Berry, whom Hussman and his father hired in 1970.  "He was a very trustworthy and loyal, dedicated man.  He was dedicated not just to me, but really dedicated to the company and to the newspapers.

"He was a key reason for the success of our company."

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