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Ewing attended the public Neville High School in Monroe, but graduated from a private school in [[New Jersey]]. He attended the [[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], [[Alabama]].<ref name=mns/>​
 
Ewing attended the public Neville High School in Monroe, but graduated from a private school in [[New Jersey]]. He attended the [[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], [[Alabama]].<ref name=mns/>​
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Ewing, I, bought the ''Monroe Morning World'' in 1930, from​ Clarence E. Faulk, Sr., who was also a founder of Delta Air Lines and the father of [[Clarence Fields]], the former publisher of the ''Ruston Daily Leader'' in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of ''The Monroe Morning World'' from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a [[heart attack]]. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of ''The Shreveport Times,'' the morning daily in [[Shreveport]], after the death of his brother, John D. Ewing, Sr. (1892-1952), who had been ''The Times'' editor and publisher since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.<ref name=times>''The Shreveport Times,'' March 30, 2007.</ref>​
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Ewing, I, bought the ''Monroe Morning World'' in 1930, from​ [[Clarence Faulk|Clarence E. Faulk, Sr.]], who was also a founder of Delta Air Lines and the father of [[Clarence Fields]], the former publisher of the ''Ruston Daily Leader'' in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of ''The Monroe Morning World'' from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a [[heart attack]]. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of ''The Shreveport Times,'' the morning daily in [[Shreveport]], after the death of his brother, John D. Ewing, Sr. (1892-1952), who had been ''The Times'' editor and publisher since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.<ref name=times>''The Shreveport Times,'' March 30, 2007.</ref>​
    
In 1977, Robert Ewing's family, including [[Edmund Graves Brown]], sold the newspapers to the Gannett chain. The two Monroe papers consolidated in 1980 as ''The News-Star-World.'' On May 22, 1988, the name changed to simply ''The News-Star.'' In addition to ''The Shreveport Times'' and the Monroe publication, Ewing's namesake grandfather, a well-known publisher and journalist for more than four decades, owned the former ''Daily States in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=times/>​
 
In 1977, Robert Ewing's family, including [[Edmund Graves Brown]], sold the newspapers to the Gannett chain. The two Monroe papers consolidated in 1980 as ''The News-Star-World.'' On May 22, 1988, the name changed to simply ''The News-Star.'' In addition to ''The Shreveport Times'' and the Monroe publication, Ewing's namesake grandfather, a well-known publisher and journalist for more than four decades, owned the former ''Daily States in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=times/>​
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