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...October 25, 1962, Kennedy wrote a letter to Orvil Dryfoos, the late president and publisher of The New York Times, thanking him for agreeing not to print certain information about the confrontation with the Soviet Union over Cuba...
...calls him a "Times-man in the old sense, a man emotionally committed to the institution as a way of life, a religion, a cult." As Washington bureau chief in the early '60s, Reston developed a first-class staff and a close friendship with the publisher, the late Orvil Dryfoos (husband of an Ochs granddaughter). It was virtually impossible for editors in New York to over rule Reston, even though some out ranked him. "His artistry as an administrator could not be measured simply by the fact that he usually got his own way," writes Talese. "What was more...
...Arthur Hays Sulzberger presided over the institution with a steady hand, nudged its editorial stance toward more depth in news coverage, more interpretation and background on the events shaping the age. When Sulzberger retired from active control in 1961, he and his wife picked Daughter Marian Dryfoos' husband Orvil to run the show. After Dryfoos died in May, Sulzberger had to choose his successor again. And last week he picked his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger...
...Died. Orvil Eugene Dryfoos, 50, president since 1957 and publisher since 1961 of the New York Times, a onetime stockbroker who married then Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger's eldest daughter in 1941,*six months later joined the paper as a cub reporter, then moved into management, where he became a firm but authority-delegating executive, developing the Times's Western edition last year, then acting as background negotiator and front-line administrator of the paper's skeleton 900-man staff (normally 5.000) during the 114-day New York newspaper strike, a tedious period that broke...
...dividends from Canada's Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., in which the Times owns 42% of the voting stock. It was the worst loss in the paper's 152-year history. "Additional revenue must be obtained," said Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Publisher Orvil E. Dryfoos, "to make up for our losses." Which is no news to New Yorkers, who have been paying twice as much (10?) for the Times ever since its reappearance last month. Some found the nickel boost too much to bear, and some discovered during the 114-day strike that they could live...