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Fred Drasner, a Feisty Leader of The Daily News, Is Dead at 83

A former New York cabdriver who never lost his edge, he was co-publisher alongside Mort Zuckerman as he took on rival papers in the so-called tabloid wars.

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Deaths (Obituaries), Drasner, Fred, Football, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, New York Daily News, New York Newsday, Newsday, Newspapers, US News & World Report, Washington Redskins, Zuckerman, Mortimer B
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