Word: gruson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's absolute rubbish," retorted Times Co. Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson. "What the Post did was an act of boyish spite, not serious journalism." Indeed, though any newspaper has a First Amendment right to print pretty much what it pleases, most libertarians would probably have been happier had the Post reserved that defense for a more important case. Ends is hardly the Pentagon papers. Those damning Government documents might have remained a secret for decades had not the Times printed them. Ends was merely brought out a few days in advance, which may be enterprising journalism, but hardly...
...condoned or known of any CIA use of TIME correspondents and said he would be "amazed" if any such arrangements had ever been approved by the late Henry Luce, Time Inc. cofounder. "Harry Luce had a very scrupulous regard for the difference between journalism and government," said Donovan. Sydney Gruson, executive vice president of the New York Times Co., declared that the paper had no knowledge of any such arrangements. The Times and CBS asked the CIA to open its files on the firms' employees...
Despite that easy office camaraderie, many of Sulzberger's executives stay on a wary alert. "There is no way of knowing what he is thinking," says Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson, Sulzberger's closest friend at the firm. Others describe the publisher's management style as resembling an artichoke: multilayered, and far different at heart from what it is on the surface. "This place is never free of tension. We play rough games with each other," says one 14th-floor strategist...
...Years ago, when Sydney Gruson was running the now defunct New York Times international edition from Paris, his wife, Flora Lewis, sometimes used the telephone, office facilities and chauffeur-driven car of the paper's Paris bureau. In the absence of the bureau chief, she would sometimes occupy his private office-a practice that ended when one of the correspondents installed a special lock. The arrangement was curious because Lewis, a skilled journalist of wide experience, was then writing a column for Newsday. The couple then returned to New York, where he became a Times vice president...
...Gruson said that he will meet with the fire commissioner again next week to work out some plan of action for the pond. "But we haven't set a date yet," he added...