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...book is light on the financial and business detail that would permit a fuller judgment of the family's management of their trust, the story of the Ochs-Sulzberger family makes one want to join the cheer sent up by former executive editor Max Frankel on the occasion of Arthur Jr.'s accession: "Long live the monarchy...
When Ochs died in 1935, his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger became publisher and arrived in that position with such "haphazard and incomplete" training that he admitted feeling "frightened and alone." After his retirement, his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos took over. He had come to the paper from a seat on the stock exchange but had been somewhat more carefully groomed. Tragically, he died young, in 1963, when his diseased heart failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch...
Punch's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. took over the paper in 1992 without much real management experience, but like each of his forebears, he grew into the job. He has continued the tradition of trusting in strong and intellectually gifted editors and, like his father, has had the strength to disappoint relatives who hoped to have larger roles in running the paper...
Sophomore Arthur Fergusson took third on the school triple-jump list with his 50:8.75 at outdoor Heps...
...DIED. W. ARTHUR GARRITY JR., 79, the federal judge who in 1974 triggered riots and "white flight" by ordering the desegregation, by student busing, of Boston schools; in Wellesley, Mass...