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1 story matching figurehead
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:forehead, figur, barehead, sorehead, moorehead, scarehead
- The Puppet Editor's Expensive Betrayal
A cautionary tale of a local 'figurehead' editor who was used by power brokers to spread libel, only to be abandoned when the lawsuits started arriving.