Word: ridders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guilty Defendant. As the Portland story clattered over the press wires, many another newspaper began to turn a wary eye on puzzle contests. President Bernard Ridder of the St. Paul Pioneer Press made a worried call to Portland, then canceled his contest and turned its records over to the FBI.*At week's end the FBI was joined in its investigation by the U.S. Postal Service...
Since Herman Ridder, an immigrant's son, bought the German-language New York Staats-Zeitiing in 1890, the publishing Ridder clan has grown to three sons and eight grandsons-and their newspaper empire has kept pace. This week Ridder Publications Inc. bought the only two dailies in Pasadena. Calif., the evening Star-News (circ. 41,120) and the morning Independent (circ. 35,588). Reported total cost: $4,500,000. That made six California newspapers picked up by the Ridders in 3½ years, giving them a monopoly not only in Pasadena but also in Long Beach and San Jose...
...Ridder family-now headed by Joseph E.. 69, his twin. Victor, and | Bernard H., 73-owns 13 newspapers (not counting the Seattle Times, in which it controls 49.5% of the stock), plus four radio stations and two TV stations. "This expansion will stop," said a Ridder employee last week, "when you run out of Ridder boys." The eight Ridder grandsons-who all help to run the papers, have already sired a dozen sons of their own. To help strangers sort out the clan, grandson Herman H., 47, president of the company, carries an oversized business card with a family...
...Pasadena papers as publisher, grandson Bernard J.. 42. a balding Princeton man and exMarine, this week takes leave of his job as publisher of Manhattan's Journal of Commerce. (It will go to his brother Eric.) Bernard, who came up through several Ridder dailies, plans to publish the two Pasadena newspapers in the Star-News building and combine their Sunday editions; he will probably sell the Independent building and surplus equipment. Independent Editor Fred G. Runyon, 53, son of the paper's cofounder, will become editor in chief of both dailies. There will be no other executive...
...immigrant's son, the late Herman Ridder got his start in newspaper publishing in 1900 with the German-language Staats-Zeitung. But as the vanishing immigrant became the unhyphenated American, the foreign-language press dwindled. Publisher Ridder's interests grew into a twelve-paper, English-language group of dailies built on the cornerstone of the daily Staats-Zeitung, just as the late Joseph Pulitzer started out on St. Louis' German-language Westliche Post. Last week, with the number of German readers still dwindling, Victor F. Ridder, 67, son of Herman Ridder, announced that he was selling...