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...Times, went to Horace Mann school and Columbia College. There he was on the swimming team, danced as a chorus boy in a musical and met Iphigene Ochs, a student at Barnard College. She was the only child of Ochs and a cousin of Julius Ochs Adler, one of Sulzberger's best friends, who lived in the Ochs home...
...looked, listened to everyone and learned about news and editorial administration, in 1919 was made vice president. (At the same period Adler, also a vice president, was serving his own apprenticeship.) When 75-year-old Adolph Ochs suffered a breakdown in 1933, Sulzberger temporarily ran things. After Ochs died in 1935, Mrs. Ochs (who died in 1937) and Mrs. Sulzberger got life interests in the trust he had set up for the block of stock that controls the Times. Named as trustees were Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Sulzberger and Adler. By giving control of the trust to Mr. & Mrs. Sulzberger, Publisher...
...long run makes the final decisions about the news, editorial and general publishing policies. But he does so, says he, only after "talking things out and, on many occasions, being willing to give way rather than give orders." Every day at noon, Sulzberger talks things out with Julius Adler, vice president and general manager of the Times, who helps look after its business, mechanical and circulation side, and is better known outside the Times as a veteran of both wars and a major general (reserve...
...anything they say is sub rosa. (Point: the ceiling is garlanded with roses.) The male members of this exclusive luncheon club are Managing Editor James; Assistant Managing Editor Catledge; Assistant to the Publisher (and son-in-law) Orvil Eugene Dryfoos; Editor Charles Merz, boss of the editorial page; General Adler; Washington Correspondent Krock (when he's in town), and Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 56 (TIME, March 8, 1948), the restless, smart and hard-driving boss of the four excellent Sunday feature sections, which have helped boost the Sunday Times from 778,000 to 1,153,000 circulation since...
Interruptions, Please. The ideas behind these words, argues Adler, represent the most important questions that Western man has been asking since his civilization began. That civilization "is like a long continuing conversation in which Plato is talking to Copernicus and Copernicus is talking to Kant." With the Syntopicon (and Chicago's set of the Great Books), a reader will be able to put the conversation together, can interrupt it at any point, and follow any theme through as many centuries as he cares...