Biographical Information re Richard Kerens Sutherland

Sulzberger Sulzberger Sutherland from the principles of honest revenue was offset after the war when circula- urnalism which [Ochs], with of London, both Dec. 12, 1968; and Newsweek, tion, which had grown during the war, contin- Dec. 23, 1968.] burage, impressed upon our ued to climb as advertising revenue came back I himself to Ochs's commit- RONALD S. MARMARELLI and increased. news impartially, without fear As publisher, Sulzberger delegated authority SUTHERLAND, RICHARD KERENS (Nov. but paid close attention to details. He defined d articles, Sulzberger often 27, 1893-June 25, 1966), army officer, was his role as working in harmony with carefully portance in a democracy of born in Hancock, Md., the son of Howard chosen associates, "talking things out and, on ate, and impartial journal- Sutherland, later United States senator from occasion, being willing to give way rather than nalist's obligation to present West Virginia, and Effie Harris. After graduat- to give orders.' Turner Catledge, the executive lly, and intelligently. Later, ing from high school in Elkins, W.Va., in editor under Sulzberger, described him as "ex- interpretation in the news to 1912, he entered Yale University, earning a tremely urbane, self-confident, and intelligent, tual report. In 1945 he stated B.A. in 1916. That summer he served on the one of the easiest men to deal with I've ever 's "chief responsibility lies in Mexican border in a federalized National known." After his death, the Times wrote of which happens. Which- Guard unit. In November he became a second Sulzberger that "the square set of his shoulders ould jump, we should record lieutenant of infantry in the regular army. and his trim physique" conveyed the impres- I not allow our excitement During the ensuing thirteen months, he first sion that he was "a tall and dominating man, 1 which it takes, or plans to studied at the Army Service Schools in Fort although he was of average height-5 feet, 9 ith our primary mission." Leavenworth, Kans., and then was in the Elev- inches." t to the ideal of impartiality enth Infantry Regiment at posts in Arizona and In November 1957 in Burma, while traveling on moved him vigorously to Georgia; he gained his first company command around the world with his wife, Sulzberger union shop for news and and promotions to first lieutenant and captain. suffered the first of a series of strokes that :S and to bar Communist- Sutherland joined the Second Infantry Divi- increasingly invalided him during the last m employment in what he sion in France in January 1918 and subse- eleven years of his life. He retired as publisher e departments of the newspa- quently saw action in several sectors, including on Apr. 25, 1961, and was succeeded by Orvil asked his own expressions of Château-Thierry After the Armistice he was in E. Dryfoos, the husband of his eldest daughter, to the editor by using the the Rhine occupation. He returned to the Marian. Dryfoos, who had apprenticed under chess (A.H.S.). United States in July 1919, and on October 1 Sulzberger as Sulzberger had under Ochs, had ver as publisher, Sulzberger he married Josephine Whiteside; they had one been named president of the company in April nges at the Times would be child. (daughter) 1957. On June 20, 1963, Sulzberger's son, a year because he did not His tours of duty from 1919 to 1937 included Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was named publisher had been waiting until Ochs various school, troop, and staff assignments. He after Dryfoos died following the strain of a es. Under Sulzberger's lead- graduated from the advanced course of the newspaper strike that lasted from December experienced gradual and Infantry School in Fort Benning, Ga. (1923); 1962 to March 1963. The elder Sulzberger improvement in news COV- the Command and General Staff School at remained as chairman of the board. He died in er content, continued finan- Fort Leavenworth (1928); the École Supérieure New York City, four days after having marked technical progress. He ex- de Guerre in Paris (1930); and the Army War his fiftieth anniversary at the Times. aper's production facilities, College in Washington, D.C. (1933). He tion WQXR in New York in served with the Sixty-third and Twenty-ninth an international edition in Infantry regiments in New York and Georgia; 3 the company issued its first [Sulzberger's papers are in the New York Times on the Infantry School faculty; and on the War ment of finances. It showed archives. Issues of the Times from 1935 through 1968 Department General Staff during General eth consecutive year. In his contain many articles chronicling Sulzberger's activ- Douglas MacArthur's final three years as army ities, including his speeches, most of which are chief of staff. publisher (1935-1961), the reported at length. See also "Sulzberger Heads the employees more than dou- Sutherland took command of a battalion of Times," Literary Digest, May 18, 1935; Meyer age more than tripled; daily the Fifteenth Infantry Regiment at Tientsin, Berger, The Story of the New York Times, 1851-1951 ed by 40 percent, and Sun- (1951); Charles Merz, "An Appreciation: Arthur China, four days prior to the outbreak of the arly doubled; and gross in- Hays Sulzberger," New York Times, Dec. 13, 1968; Sino-Japanese War in July 1937. Although not about $100 million. Brooks Atkinson, "Arthur Hays Sulzberger," New attacked by the Japanese army that soon cap- ar II, Sulzberger decided to York Times, Dec. 15, 1968; Gay Talese, The King- tured Beijing and Tientsin, the Fifteenth Infan- sive war coverage by restrict- dom and the Power (1969); Turner Catledge, My Life try faced months of high tension. I thereby making sufficient and the Times (1971); Harrison Salisbury, Without In March 1938, Sutherland was promoted to news in a time of newsprint Fear or Favor (1980); and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, major and assigned to the Manila staff of imporary loss of advertising Iphigene (1981), written with Susan W. Dryfoos. MacArthur, military adviser to the Philippine Obituaries are in the New York Times and the Times Commonwealth since late 1935. At first, his 637