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...news and editorial pages takes far less of Sulzberger's office energies than preserving the paper's financial health. His surprisingly modest office on the Times building's 14th floor?part of a suite that includes a bedroom, bath, conference room and study?is dominated by a massive walnut desk that he commandeered from the Times archivist. Sulzberger is at 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...
...fostered mainly by Re publican Senator Arthur Vandenburg. Congress doubtless saw the plan in terms of cold war designs, and its passage was helped substantially by Stalin's hostility to it. President Harry Truman himself considered the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan "two halves of the same walnut." He signed the law on April 3, 1948. Two weeks after that the freighter John H. Quick left Galveston, Texas, with 9,000 long tons of wheat for France - the first item of a vast outpouring of aid that would eventually include machine tools, farm equipment and raw materials...
...says. "I can't face starting all over again." The only immediate remedy for orchard growers was an offer from a company in Los Angeles to provide water at nearly $90 per acre-foot (the usual price: $5). "I couldn't afford to pay that," said Walnut Grower Charles Jasper. "It would come to $27,000 a year, I figure...
...never saw her after that, but I'll never forget that walnut little victrola. (P.S.--I am now the happily married father of a clock radio...