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When Ochs died in 1935, his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger became publisher and arrived in that position with such "haphazard and incomplete" training that he admitted feeling "frightened and alone." After his retirement, his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos took over. He had come to the paper from a seat on the stock exchange but had been somewhat more carefully groomed. Tragically, he died young, in 1963, when his diseased heart failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch...
...editor of the Sun, wanted Baker back and offered him a column on whatever subject he wanted. Baker accepted and told Reston. Baker says now that he thinks no one had ever quit the Times before. "They weren't used to it," he adds. So Reston persuaded the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, to counteroffer him a column at the Times. The Sun lost Baker again, this time for good...
Sulzberger retired in 1961 and was succeeded by his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos, the son of a hosiery manufacturer. A hand some and capable Wall Street broker, Dryfoos had been drafted into the paper shortly after his marriage to Sulzberger's oldest daughter, Marian. Like Sulzberger, Dryfoos carried on the Ochs legacy, but he faced new challenges. In 1962 he launched a separate West Coast edition, basically a condensation of the East Coast Times, but the venture got off to a bad start. The next year Dryfoos had to weather a 114-day strike of printing unions that left...
...minor posts in Times Co. management. Punch Sulzberger was an amiable presence around the building, though when he attended an occasional story conference he sometimes seemed more interested in examining the air-conditioning ducts on the ceiling. "The old man had this scenario," Sulzberger says of his father. "Orvil would go along for a while as publisher and then I was going to take over." But Dry foos died of a heart ailment at 50 after only two years on the job, and the family turned to Punch. "I was dumbfounded," says Punch. Then 37 and assistant treasurer...
...Reston's selfcensorship came in April 1961. Ten days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, Times reporter Tad Szulc put together a detailed story describing the training of Cuban refugees in Miami and the imminence of an invasion. But before the first edition came off the presses, Times publisher Orvil Dryfoos--on Reston's advice--ordered several changes. The story was moved from the lead column eight position to column four, and the headline was reduced from four columns to one column. All references to the imminence of the invasion were eliminated, and information linking the CIA to the invasion...