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...Samuel I. Newhouse, a man who has spent a lifetime buying newspapers (he now has 14) and making them pay, has never seriously shopped in New York; he feels that Manhattan's field of seven will ultimately shrink to four. Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos, agrees that the presence of seven Manhattan dailies is "freakish." Says Dryfoos, without naming those papers he thinks are doomed: "Within ten years there's bound to be a different lineup...
...Sulzberger, the Times grew richer and stronger than ever. This week, as he approached his 70th birthday, Times Publisher Sulzberger decided that the time had come to place the family paper in more youthful hands. The Times's new publisher, formally introduced at an annual stockholders' meeting: Orvil Eugene Dryfoos, 48-who happens to be Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
...onetime Wall Street broker, Orvil Dryfoos married Sulzberger's first daughter, Marian, in 1941. two years later went to work for his father-in-law. From then on, his rise was prompt and predictable: vice president and Times director in 1954, Times president in 1957. Ever since Sulzberger suffered a stroke three years ago, Dryfoos has been publisher in nearly everything but title...
Having granted his son-in-law the title, Sulzberger intends to keep his office on the 14th floor at the Times, but "if someone comes in to see me now, I'll tell him to go and see Orvil." Orvil is not likely to ruffle an operation that has climbed steadily since Ochs set it in motion. Today the Times, with 744,763 daily and 1,400,826 Sunday circulation, is the fastest-growing paper in Manhattan and the most influential in the U.S.-although its margin of profit is surprisingly low.* Said New Publisher Dryfoos...
...usually cautious New York Times declared Kennedy "elected" in an eight-column banner over the lead story by Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston, called to New York for the occasion. The edition was hardly on the street, however, when the Times high command, including President Orvil E. Dryfoos, took a worried look at the eroding Kennedy margin, gathered in emergency conference and hurriedly decided to stop the presses for almost three hours while Reston clattered out a new version of the latest developments. "Our obligation was to produce a historical document," said Reston. The Times move abruptly halted printing...