Word: lisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...paper's hard-hitting editor, Coleman A. Harwell, and brought in Ed ward D. Ball, the Associated Press's Nash ville bureau chief. Silliman Jr. absented himself frequently on extended tours. Ball focused on cutting costs. The paper turned pale and comatose. The Tennessean's pub lisher was probably more embarrassed than pleased when Assistant City Editor John Seigenthaler published a 1956 series on teamster corruption in Tennessee that helped impeach Chattanooga Criminal Court Judge Ralston Schoolfield. As the school segregation issue shook the South, the Tennessean's editorials were models of cautious vapidity. Dispirited staffers...
...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...