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Robert Cohen, of Hudson News chain, dies

Magazine distributor Robert B. Cohen, who built the Hudson News chain of newsstands from one store at LaGuardia Airport and changed the way travelers spend their downtime, has died at age 86.

Cohen was already a giant in the magazine and newspaper distribution business when he decided to launch a retail chain in 1987.

His stores were a break from the claustrophobic newsstands of the...

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