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...papers share a common ancestry that goes back to 1878, the year that a onetime itinerant printer named Adolph Ochs paid $250 for a half-interest in the Tennessee daily. Ochs did so well that soon he owned the whole paper. By 1896 he was emboldened to expand. For $75,000 he acquired what was then New York City's most feeble daily, the Times...
Apprentice to Publisher. Long before his death, Adolph Ochs arranged that both papers would stay in the family. With only one child, Iphigene, that was not easy, but Ochs managed. Iphigene made an excellent marriage, to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, son of a cotton-textile manufacturer, and Son-in-Law Sulzberger made an excellent successor as pub lisher, president and ultimately board chairman of the New York Times. Furthermore, he had four children himself. And they got married and had children. After Ochs died in 1935, Arthur Hays Sulzberger was able to say that "the tradition carries...
That was part of the Times tradition too, in a way. Female descendants of Adolph Ochs have never been installed in the top positions at either paper, although some of them, like Ruth Golden, could have ordered it. Ruth, who was music critic of the paper for ten years, is one of four beneficiaries-all Arthur Hays Sulzberger's children-of the trust that owns both papers...
Harvard's director of athletics, Adolph Samborski, said the problem of the NCAA boycott has been taken under consideration by the University, and that he expects a decision in two days. He had no comment on Giegengack's statement
Goldstein played Adolph to fit Temin's interpretation perfectly. He was so serious, so dependent, so blind, that Gustav's control remained absolutely believable. He was pitiful, but never utterly ridiculous. And in his long speech to Tekla, he communicated his frustration so passionately as to show what a man he had once been...