Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important, he started diversifying the Times by buying Cowles Communications, with its lucrative magazines (Family Circle, Golf Digest) and small newspapers. Diversification, according to Columnist James Reston, has been Sulzberger's shrewdest move to date. "With more of the company's earnings coming from outside the paper," says Reston, "Punch could confront the unions with the fact that we could take a strike if necessary...
...that desk by 8 a.m. (many Times editors drift in around 11 a.m.; Sulzberger used to be known around the office as "the farm boy"), and spends an hour reading and answering mail. Following the lead of his wife, acquaintances of recent years call him Arthur instead of Punch, and he often has to ask his secretary how long he has known someone so he can decide which signature...
...When Punch was about five his father decreed that he was too old to be playing with his sisters' dolls, so the boy staged an elaborate backyard burial for them. When he went to school, young Arthur was less interested in studying than in tinkering: with clocks, wagons, radios, broken toys-but not toy soldiers or guns, which were proscribed by his father in keeping with the Times's support of gun-control legislation. The elder Sulzberger liked to bring Punch and his sisters to the office on Sundays to meet the editors. Sister Judy, closest to Punch...
...handle followed Punch through four expensive prep schools and into the Marines, which he joined at age 17 to his parents' distress. But the corps gave Sulzberger a hard edge of purpose, and after World War II service in the Philippines, he enrolled at Columbia College, made the dean's list his first semester and graduated in 1951. After uninspired tours as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and the Times, Sulzberger took the first in his succession of management jobs at the family paper. He also took a Times secretary as his wife, had a son, Arthur...
Remarried that year to the former Carol Fox Fuhrman (they had a daughter, Cynthia, in 1964, and Punch adopted his wife's daughter Cathy), Sulzberger now divides off-duty hours between his Fifth Avenue apartment and a modern, eleven-room cypress-and-glass house on his mother's 300-acre estate in suburban Stamford, Conn. Both residences are furnished in what one disapproving family member calls "Howard Johnson decorator stuff." Another upgrades it to "Bloomingdale's pleasant." Sulzberger drinks vodka on the rocks and eats hamburgers at his favorite restaurant, Manhattan's 21 Club...