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...prompted either by hunch or foresight, the Ridder newspaper group snapped up San Jose's dailies for what proved to be a bargain $3.5 million. From humble origins, this chain has steadily lengthened over the years until it now spans the continent. It was founded in 1895 by Herman Ridder, who had bought the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung...
...Absentee Owners. As the only daily in a burgeoning town, the News-Press had no lack of hopeful buyers. The Ridder chain, the Los Angeles Times, British Press Lord Roy Thomson were all said to have made bids. McLean overcame Storke's objection to absentee ownership by purchasing the paper for himself, not for the Philadelphia Bulletin Co. He also promised to live in Santa Barbara part of each year, and he has already moved his nephew Stuart Symington Taylor, 50, a cousin of the Missouri Senator, from his job as Bulletin vice president to fulltime publisher...
Died. Victor Frank Ridder, 77, publisher, who with his two brothers took over a Manhattan German-language weekly from their father in 1915, put together a chain of eight profitable newspapers in one-paper cities (among them St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., Long Beach and Pasadena, Calif.), plus the country's oldest business paper, the 136-year-old Journal of Commerce; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...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...
...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...