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Talese traces the control of the Times from Adolph Ochs, who bought the failing paper in 1896, to Ochs' grandson, Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, who at 42 is now publisher...
...Punch Sulzberger became publisher in 1963. A year later, he put a New York editor in control of the Washington bureau. Reston told Sulzberger that he could not remain bureau chief under these circumstances; Sulzberger responded by making Reston an associate editor, but allowed him to choose Tom Wicker as his successor. With an "awareness of corporate whimsy, his knowledge of how executive wives can sometimes build the bridges that can more tightly bind their husbands," Reston suggested that the Wickers accompany the Sulzbergers on a month's visit to Europe. According to Talese's rather far-fetched...
Throughout the narrative, Talese analyzes the ambitions and anxieties of figures high and low in the Times hierarchy. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel's fortunes have declined under Punch, Talese figures, but the publisher's cousin, John Oakes, editor of the editorial page, remains in favor, "attacking issues with an aggressiveness that Adolph Ochs would have never tolerated, and sniping at important people once regarded within the Times as 'sacred cows.'" Oakes, says Talese, enjoys controversy and has "what amounts to total freedom" to provoke...
...cross between a tiger and a moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall, Tallulah chain-smoked, talked and caroused like a longshoreman. She was known to romp around her apartment in the nude drinking planter's punch-and sometimes greeted friends at the door in the same state of undress. Tallulah refused to remember anyone's name (she once introduced a friend named Olive as "Martini"), liked to break up stuffy parties by doing cartwheels or tossing the other ladies' shoes out the window...
...Scale to No. 6. As for that intimate, inside look at the life and times of black people, Julia seems more like The Wonderful World of Color. In one episode, when a character conveniently named Potts makes a slighting reference about Negroes, Julia delivers her big punch line: "Is Potts calling the black a kettle?" Producer Kanter promises more of this hard-hitting social commentary in forthcoming shows. "In one program," says Kanter, "there's a Negro male who's a failure and blames it all on his being colored. We straighten him out. In another, Corey...