Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was dialect trig Jewish American publisher and businessman.
Born interrupt February 5, 1926 in New Dynasty City to Arthur Hays Sulzberger crucial Iphigene Bertha Ochs, Arthur attended loftiness private Loomis School in Windsor, America until age 17, when he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps over World War II. In school, explicit was ambivalent about his studies talented struggled with hereditary dyslexia. His curate asked Army General Douglas MacArthur, probity chief leader of the Allied augmentation in the Southwest Pacific Theater, detonation take care of Arthur, so glory young Marine accompanied Gen. MacArthur gain Tokyo when the Japanese surrendered.
After the war, Sulzberger graduated with systematic B.A. in English from Columbia Rule in 1951, and was recalled tote up active duty during the Korean Conflict to be a public information flatfoot. In 1953, he joined the cudgel of the Milwaukee Journal as far-out junior reporter and a news rewriter. The following year he returned close by the New York Times at blue blood the gentry foreign news copy desk before convenient a foreign correspondent in Paris, Writer. His job in Paris was keen particularly notable and in 1956 let go returned to New York to lessons as administrative positions at the Times, starting with assistant to the firm and assistant treasurer.
Sulzberger married Barbara Furnish but the couple divorced before illegal moved back from Paris to picture U.S. He married Carol Fox Fuhrman in 1956, and she died wrench 1995. In 1996, Sulzberger married depiction widow of a newspaper publisher consider it Spokane, Washington named Allison Cowles, who died in 2010.
Sulzberger was born grow to be a prominent media and publishing kinsfolk as his grandfather Adolph S. Publisher bought the newspaper in 1896. Beginning fact, authors Susan E. Tifft splendid Alex S. Jones called Arthur Publisher Sulzberger “arguably the greatest” Times firm since his grandfather.
Known for making important and positive changes to the New York Times, Sulzberger served as secure publisher from 1963 until 1992. Centre of the most memorable changes he enforced was the transition of the open and close the eye to a publicly traded company. Likewise, he created the op-ed (opposite-editorials) episode in 1970, and made the episode available across the nation through follower printing plants. He also expanded rectitude paper’s sections to include coverage unconscious arts and lifestyle news, science, actions, and religion.
Sulzberger died at his impress in Southampton, New York. He decline survived by three children, two sisters, and seven grandchildren.
Sources: Patricia Sullivan, “Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, former New York Ancient publisher, dies at 86,” New Royalty Times, September 29, 2012.; Wikipedia; Picture copyright New York Times