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...suburban papers. Running, on the average, some 30 pages fatter since the demise of the WJT, the Post feels more impregnable than ever. Despite forecasts of imminent death all these years, it has outlived all other afternoon challengers. "Why should I worry about another paper starting?" asks Publisher Dorothy Schiff. "I'm only worried about nuclear warfare...
Attending to Business. In earlier days, the younger Sarnoff's successive promotions were greeted in expected fashion. Wags suggested that his theme song ought to be Somebody Up There Likes Me. He made headlines in 1950 when, after a divorce, he married Felicia Schiff Warburg, member of one of New York's leading banking families. Nowadays, however, even the old skeptics admit that Bob Sarnoff has attended strictly to business. Over the years, his authority and judgment have been reflected more and more in the complex decisions that are of vital concern to the mammoth corporation. Though...
With a touch of sly wit, undaunted Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff said: "I have great respect for the judgment of the New York Times, and if they have come to the conclusion to stay out of the afternoon, they are probably right." Not that the threat of the Times seemed to frighten her very much. "I really didn't do too much thinking about it. I've seen so many papers come and go that it really doesn't worry me too much. If we survived the merger of those three papers into the World Journal Tribune...
Route to High Finance. These names and others-Schiff, Warburg, Straus, Goldman, Guggenheim, Sachs-form what Stephen Birmingham calls Manhattan's "other Society," the great Jewish families of New York. Their founders, nearly all of them German, arrived in the U.S. in the middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols...
While others were contemplating a second afternoon daily, the existing one went calmly on its way as usual. Dorothy Schiff's liberal New York Post picked up some of the castoffs of the feature-fat W.J.T.: the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, Columnists Walter Lippmann, Evans and Novak, Art Buchwald-and even right-wing William Buckley Jr. "The New York Post," explained a disclaimer, "recognizing its altered role as the only afternoon newspaper in New York, believes that it is a part of its journalistic duty to convey some expression of viewpoints different from...