We thought it fitting on this Memorial Day to ask the founder of Massachusetts News, who served in both World War II and Korea (where his roommate at Williams College, Lt. James Dorland, died a heroic death) to share his unique knowledge of the Sulzberger family.

Those Who Served in WWII and Korea Have Different “World-View” than Pinch Sulzberger Who Comes from the “Boomer” Generation

By Attorney J. Edward Pawlick, Founder of Massachusetts News

            It’s going to take time to explain the unbelievable damage that the Sulzberger family has done to this country since it wrested control of the New York Times from the rightful owner at his death in 1935.    

            The original Sulzberger, handsome Arthur H. Sulzberger was the first to use skullduggery, using his power with women to begin taking charge of the Times during World War I by marrying the only child of the modern founder of the newspaper, Adolph Ochs, who had planned that his nephew, Julius Ochs Adler, would take charge at his death. 

            But while Julius was in the thick of the fighting in Europe and returned a decorated hero, Sulzberger strutted around in his uniform in a replacement camp in the South. He married Adolph’s daughter in 1917 while Julius was overseas and he arrived at the New York Times in his uniform, complete with boots and spurs. It took a while longer for Julius to arrive and find (according to family lore) Arthur sitting at his desk.

            “Get the hell out of my office. I won’t stand for this,” he is supposed to have said. Whether he did or not, Arthur left the office.

 

Not Surprising that Our World-View Is Different   

            It’s not surprising that we who served in WWII and Korea have a different world-view than Pinch Sulzberger and many others from the “Boomer” generation of the 1960s, much like the difference between Julius Adler and Arthur Sulzberger.

            It’s revealing that Pinch has chosen to change his name from that of his father because he believes that all of his ancestors were evil, including his father. The name that he has chosen is Arthur H. Sulzberger, the man who stole the  New York Times in the first place. 

            We do not hate the Sulzberger family although all citizens have good reason to do so. No one can deny that Pinch has had a strange life as a member of that dysfunctional family.  They were the ones who personally avoided combat in every war in the last century while endorsing the entry of our country into World War One, WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

            Pinch isn’t even certain who his real father is. He knows his mother is Barbara Grant but he can never be certain who sired him. When the family was in Paris in 1955 when Pinch was four-years-old, his mother confessed to an affair with a reporter at the Herald Tribune. She then separated from his father, Punch, and moved out with Pinch and his younger sister. His father, Punch Sulzberger, later paid support to a widowed Times employee who said that Punch was the father of her son. But no one will ever know for sure who was the father of Pinch. It is ironical that Punch was the one who apparently tried to do the “right” thing throughout his life.

 

We are indebted to the book “The Trust,” which was written with the full cooperation of the Ochses and Sulzbergers who granted unconditional access to their archives to a husband and wife team, Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. Mr. Jones won a Pulitzer Prize while a reporter at the Times from 1983 to 1992 where  he covered the press. Ms. Tifft is a former associate editor at Time magazine. Although the book is out-of-print, used copies are still available at bargain prices at Barnes and Noble and other outlets. It is highly recommended.

 

Those who wish to get to the heart of how Pinch Sulzberger has seriously underestimated Atty. Pawlick and is now on his last legs and is on his way out as Chairman of The New York Times Company, can do so quickly by reading Atty. Pawlick’s book, “Libel by New York Times.”