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Adolph Ochs
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american jewish reporter of bavarian background”. Today it says “american newspaper publisher and former owner of the new york times and the chattanooga times”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
His daughter, Iphigene Bertha Ochs , married Arthur Hays Sulzberger , who became publisher of the Times after his father-in-law. Her son Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger also became publisher of the Times . Ochs moved the Times to Longacre Square in Manhattan . On New Year's Eve 1904 , Ochs had pyrotechnists illuminate his new building at One Times Square with fireworks show from street level.1
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Then
american jewish reporter of bavarian background
Now
american newspaper publisher and former owner of the new york times and the chattanooga times
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