[BC] Memphis IBOC at Night and Small Miracles

[Scott Fybush]

>>>Do I dare point out that the (in)famous Sulzberger family, owners of
> the
> NYT, got their start running the Chattanooga Times, over at the other
> end
> of the Volunteer State? :-)<<
>
> You may dare, but strictly speaking it's not correct.  It was Adolph
> Ochs, father-in-law to the first Sulzberger to be involved with the
> paper, who first got into publishing with The Chattanooga Times, and who
> bought The New York Times from the heirs of Henry J. Raymond, its
> founder, in 1896.  There were no Sulzbergers in the picture until
> Adolph's daughter Iphigene married Arthur Hays Sulzberger in 1917, who
> became publisher upon Ochs' death in 1935.  Ochs' will specified that
> the paper be kept in the family through the generations, and Ochs'
> son-in-law, two grandsons and a great-grandson have been the publishers
> up until now (all but one of them named Sulzberger, and one grandson was
> married to a Sulzberger).

I stand (well, OK, sit) corrected - and as a media historian, should have
known better (or at least checked my facts before posting!)

Thanks, Sid!

s