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...unique role the Post has fashioned one of the world's most influential journalists: Philip L. (for Leslie) Graham, publisher, who started at the top ten years ago without ever having covered a news story, written an editorial or sold an ad. Phil Graham, 40, is an energetic charmer whose facial furrows and tall, angular frame (6 ft. 1 in., 160 Ibs.) give him a Lincolnesque look. Lawyer by profession, politician by instinct, latter-day New Dealer by choice, he became a newspaper publisher by marrying the boss's daughter. He quickly showed that the boss, Multimillionaire Eugene...
Estes & Frankenstein. While the Post's thrusts against public figures it dislikes are spectacular, it has produced more significant results in the area of issues that are broader than any personality. It was the Post (long before Phil Graham's time) that first stripped the camouflage off F.D.R.'s Supreme Court packing bill and led the fight against it. Its internationalist editorials impressed Roosevelt into recommending them to press conferences as insights into his foreign policy.* Post editorials helped to assure civilian control of atomic energy, and to trigger emergency operations that spared Europe a famine...
Dream Man. The pattern of Phil Graham's life is the envy of many a politician and looks, indeed, like a quick montage of the American dream. Graham was born in South Dakota in the Black Hills mining town of Terry, near the site where Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost...
...skinny lad nicknamed "Muscle-bound," Phil read omnivorously, graduated from high school at 16, "wittiest" and president of his class. He breezed through college, where he roomed with Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. At Harvard Law School he won the prized presidency of the Law Review, graduated tenth in a class of 400 and caught the eye of New Deal Talent Scout Professor Felix Frankfurter. That landed him a job as Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's law clerk. The next year Graham clerked for Frankfurter himself...
...first decade alone, Publisher Meyer lost $5,000,000. The hard fact was that Washington, with one-quarter the population of Chicago, had just as many papers. The Post's wobbly economic base was the toughest problem inherited by Publisher Phil Graham when Meyer stepped up to become chairman of the board...