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In 1966, Graham was the named honoree of Truman Capote's Black and White Ball. ", Bradlee remained determined to pursue his vision for Style and answered another of her suggestions for it by saying, "I can't edit this section unless you get your finger out of my eye.". She found it an amazing story of how Graham was able to succeed in a male-dominated industry. "[14] Her father, Eugene Meyer, went on to become the head of the World Bank, but left that position only six months later. Stephen Meyer Graham: Parent(s) Agnes Ernst Meyer Eugene Meyer: Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. Our thanks to friends and neighbors, Helen Graham Cancer Center, Bayada Home Care and Bayada Hospice for all of their wonderful help throughout Steve's illness. Meyer summarized the opening talk this way: "In short, neo-Darwinism fails to explain the origin of the most important defining features of living organisms, indeed, the very features that evolutionary theory has, since Darwin, claimed to explain." (p. 303). She was the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company and the first to serve as a director of the Associated Press, the news service owned by member newspapers, and of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Like his father, Phil Graham, he died by suicide. Science & Technology Seattle, WA returnofthegodhypothesis.com Joined March 2013. Mr. Stephen Meyer Graham Private Party Private jet tours for Forbes list clients: Mr Russel Wight, Mr Edward Easton, Mr Gerald Hosier, Mr William Schenkman. "By the time the story had grown to the point where the size of it dawned on us," she said, "we had already waded deeply into the stream. [15], The Grahams were important members of the Washington social scene, becoming friends with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Reagan among many others. Graham attended Miami High School and graduated from the University of Florida in 1936, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, and from Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review and earned a magna cum laude degree, in 1939. Financier Eugene Meyer bought the bankrupt Washington Post at auction in 1933 for $825,000. Katharine Graham couldn't have been happier. "People literally do think that I run downstairs and tell them what to print and what not to print. Characteristically, she prepared thoroughly for her speeches, interviewing other experts on their subjects at The Post, Newsweek and elsewhere, just as she had done much of the painstaking research for her autobiography. She and Benjamin C. Bradlee, the editor she chose to run The Post's newsroom during her years at the helm, transformed The Post and its reputation. In conjunction with the Watergate scandal, Graham was the subject of one of the best-known threats in American journalistic history. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard . Buffett, who had been a Post carrier as a teenager after his father's 1942 election to Congress, became the company's largest stockholder outside the Graham family as well as one of its directors. William Graham, a lawyer, philanthropist, investor and son of a former Washington Post publisher, committed suicide last Wednesday, according to his brother - reminiscent of the suicide of his. Praising Diana after she died in a 1997 car accident, Mrs. Graham said the princess's social activism "was from her heart. 464 Graham Ave, Camarillo. The two dated, but broke off the relationship due to conflicting interests. Mrs. Graham, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Post Co. and former publisher of The Washington Post, died at 11:56 a.m. of head injuries suffered when she fell on a sidewalk Saturday in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she was attending an annual conference of media business leaders. "[30] The Post published the quote, although Bradlee cut the words her tit. One of her first important decisions was one of her most successful. Complaints from readers and advertisers proliferated. In both instances, she withstood enormous pressure from the White House and other government agencies not to publish, including the possibility of criminal charges for violating espionage laws and challenges to licenses for the company's broadcasting properties. The cream-colored mansion sits on more than an acre and has the feel of a country estate. Here's my review which ran recently in the Cox Ohio newspapers: Slashing Through the Blood Drenched Pages of a Deadly Delightful Horror Novel. Graham pointed to a picture of his grandfather Eugene Meyer and his father, Philip Graham, . The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Within a decade, she was making momentous decisions about the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Katharine Graham was born Katharine Meyer in 1917 into a privileged family in New York City, the daughter of Agnes Elizabeth (ne Ernst) and Eugene Meyer. Four other papers in the city were competing for advertising and circulation, and all were in better shape. Mrs. Graham, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Post Co. and former publisher of The Washington Post, died at 11:56 a.m. of head injuries suffered when she fell on a sidewalk. He was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Herbert Hoover and the first president of the World Bank under President Harry S. Truman. One of the first things she let him do was go on a hiring spree, and the newsroom budget increased rapidly in subsequent years. I mean it's so crazy it's hard to answer," she said. Sizable financial issues also were at stake. daughter Elizabeth (nicknamed Lally) in 1943 and sons Don, Bill and . He gave control of the company to his daughter Katharine's husband Philip Graham in 1946. Mrs. Graham recalled that "curiously I not only concurred but was in complete accord with the idea. After Donald E. Graham succeeded her as CEO and chairman, Mrs. Graham remained active in the company as chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors. Dawkins posted his original comments there, following a post by Coyne on the Toronto debate. William Welsh Graham (1948-2017) and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952). His book Return of the God . Eugene Meyer was his maternal grandfather, and Agnes Meyer was his maternal grandmother. "She was a believer in the round table," former secretary of state Shultz said yesterday. Her dinner parties and receptions were more than just glittering social occasions. Stephen J Meyer, 44. When Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate story to Bradlee, Graham supported their investigative reporting and Bradlee ran stories about Watergate when few other news outlets were reporting on the matter. She was criticized for her missteps -- often, she thought, rightly so. ", "I really felt I was put on earth to take care of Phil Graham," she said many years later. Mrs. Graham traveled widely, often joining Post and Newsweek editors and reporters in meetings with foreign leaders. [27][28] As the only woman to be in such a high position at a publishing company, she had no female role models and had difficulty being taken seriously by many of her male colleagues and employees. The family enterprise, then relatively small, included the newspaper, which her father had purchased at a bankruptcy sale in 1933; Newsweek magazine, which her husband had bought in 1961; and two television stations. Through the years, her manner remained the same. Of Agnes Meyer, who once described herself as "a conscientious but scarcely loving mother," Mrs. Graham said, "She came on so strong you wilted. During the more than two years of the Watergate scandal that followed, The Post Co. was the target of unrelenting hostility from the White House and its friends. In 1954, Philip Graham and Eugene Meyer, who was a close adviser to his son-in-law until his death in 1959, bought the competing morning newspaper, the Times-Herald, for $8.5 million. Merseyside-born Graham has made a name for himself in hard-hitting dramas such as the This Is England franchise and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. ", D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who ordered that flags be flown at half staff at all District government facilities, said that "Mrs. Graham has been a part of this city not only as a preeminent publisher, but as a businesswoman and an active civic leader.". In an early example in 1968, a book on national security by Robert S. McNamara, a close friend of Mrs. Graham's and former secretary of defense who served on the board of directors of The Post Co., received a scathing and dismissive review in The Post by Ward Just because it scarcely mentioned the conflict in Vietnam. Donald Edward Graham was born two years later. 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Graham, The Post's chairman and CEO; her daughter, Lally Weymouth, a Post and Newsweek journalist, of New York; her son William Graham, an investor, of Los Angeles; her son Stephen Graham, a producer, philanthropist and doctoral student of English literature, of New York; 10 grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and a sister, Ruth M. Epstein of Bronxville, N.Y. The most difficult task, however, was transforming The Post Co. from a relatively small, family-owned business into a major modern corporation. Purposefully, she made friends on both sides of Washington's political divide. Philip declared that he would divorce Katharine for Robin, and he made motions to divide the couple's assets. On Aug. 3, "quite noticeably much better," according to his wife, Philip Graham was permitted to go to their farmhouse for the weekend. She manages to rewrite the story of her life in such a way that no one will ever be able to boil it down to a sentence.[citation needed], In 1999, Graham received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III A pleasure to read, [Meyer's] inviting voice brings light to bear on complicated and profoundly influential subjects. He told her that he liked working for Newsweek in Washington but that "I'd give my left one to be managing editor of The Post.". And she eagerly accepted invitations to after-hours newsroom parties, accommodating eager young reporters with stories about her career and interviewing them about their lives. Mrs. Graham found that control over crucial aspects of producing the newspaper was held by various craft unions, which had no incentive for increased efficiency or the introduction of new technology. She was born in New York City, United States of America. Mrs. Graham was impressed, and it counted a great deal with her that Lippmann and Reston were admirers of Bradlee. Meyer concentrated on advertising, circulation and the editorial page, which soon gained stature as a forum for discussion of public affairs. Any criminal prosecution could imperil the company's then-imminent public offering of $35 million in stock. An important book of both breadth and depth." Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia An important book of both breadth and depth." Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia They have a television station . Stephen Meyer Graham - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Stephen Meyer Graham In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? Graham hired Benjamin Bradlee as editor, and cultivated Warren Buffett for his financial advice; he became a major shareholder and something of an eminence grise in the company. She was affiliated as a Lutheran. They soon became friends as well as colleagues -- there was a special chemistry between them. When the war began, The Post supported it. Graham had strong links to the Rockefeller family, serving both as a member of the Rockefeller University council and as a close friend of the Museum of Modern Art, where she was honored as a recipient of the David Rockefeller Award for enlightened generosity and advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors. [12], Philip Graham became publisher of the Post in 1946, when Eugene Meyer handed over the newspaper to his son-in-law. In the end she changed, she said, because "things just happened. [16][17], Graham was also known for a long-time friendship with Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned a substantial stake in the Post. @StephenCMeyer. The first profit was not recorded until World War II, and the paper slipped back into the red when peace was declared. 103 Following. He received his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University. Helicopters landed on the roof to fly pages to six plants that had agreed to print an abbreviated Post while the paper's presses were being fixed. He was Chairman of the Washington Post Company until his death in 1959, when Philip Graham took that position and the company expanded with the purchases of television stations and Newsweek magazine. Philip Graham also bought the company's first two television stations. In 1957, he suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the couple's farm in Marshall, Va., to recuperate. Meyer began working for the Post in 1938. Supporters said the process showed she set high standards and insisted that they be met. She asked if he would support publishing that day. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. Graham published her memoirs, Personal History, in 1997. I did all the scut work: paid the bills, ran the house, drove the children. Graham presided over the Post at a crucial time in its history. 1,845.60. She became the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972, as CEO of the Washington Post company. Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to prominence in the worlds of journalism and business and became one of the most influential and admired women of her generation, died yesterday morning at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. While running the newspaper, he played a backstage role in politics. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. People named Stephen Meyer. Simons told her of two strange developments the night before: A car had driven through a house where two people were making love on a sofa -- and five men had been arresting after breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building. If profitability was going to be increased, she had to change this. Washington Post heir Stephen Graham is getting a divorce, and it might not be amicable. Philip Graham planned to follow in his father's footsteps in the Florida legislature and perhaps one day run for the U.S. Senate. Before her death, Mrs. Graham had been working on a possible new book, an anthology of stories and essays about Washington from 1917 -- when she was born and her father moved to Washington -- to the present. He is best known for playing Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006) and its television sequels This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015). While running the newspaper, Mr. Graham played a backstage role in politics. Graham and editor Bradlee first experienced challenges when they published the content of the Pentagon Papers. They had a daughter, Lally Morris Weymouth (born 1943), and three sons: Donald Edward Graham (born 1945), William Welsh Graham (1948-2017) and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952). There, at age 48, he killed himself with a shotgun. I could sell it. She denounced various stories as "bitchy," "tasteless," "snide" or "grisly." Katharine Graham worked as a newspaper publisher in the United States. Tuvieron una hija, Lally Weymouth Morris, y sus tres hijos: Donald Edward Graham, William Welsh Graham y Stephen Meyer Graham. It occurred in 1972, when Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, warned reporter Carl Bernstein about a forthcoming article: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. In December, after the pressmen overwhelmingly rejected a final contract offer, The Post began hiring and training replacement workers, a fatal blow to the union. Meyer sold 3,500 of the 5,000 Class A shares of voting stock to his son-in-law and 1,500 shares to his daughter. [21][23] On August 3, 1963, he committed suicide with a shotgun at the couple's "Glen Welby" estate near Marshall in the Virginia horse country.[24][25]. Her parents, banker Eugene Meyer and author . A coat of pericellular hyaluronan surrounds mature dendritic cells (DC) and contributes to cell-cell interactions. Entradas. "I loved my job, I loved the paper, I loved the whole company," she said. He said in an interview that she "used The Post editorial board as a bully pulpit for self-determination . And she frequently hosted local, national and international political, business and civic leaders at the newspaper and in her Georgetown home. In addition, he has three siblings: Lally Weymouth, William Welsh Graham, and Stephen Meyer Graham. The Post Co. also has interests in Bowater Mersey Paper Co., the International Herald Tribune newspaper and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. The White House orchestrated intense attacks on articles by two young Post reporters -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- that began to flesh out details of White House involvement in the Watergate burglary and its coverup. 4.31 avg rating 1,516 ratings published 2009 26 editions. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press. The medications that are now used successfully to treat the illness were not then available. (That is Jerry Coyne's blog.) She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Veteran reporter Chalmers Roberts, who was writing the first day's article, threatened to resign two weeks ahead of his planned retirement and publicly accuse The Post of cowardice if publication was delayed, and Bradlee thought others might resign as well. After graduating from the Madeira School, she went to Vassar. J. Pierpont Morgan once said, "Watch out for this fellow Meyer because if you don't he'll end up having all the money on Wall Street." She was so ill at ease before attending the company Christmas party five months after her husband's death that she spent some time rehearsing how to say "Merry Christmas." Her memoir, Personal History, won . "That's a fantastic legacy.". In 1960, he helped persuade John F. Kennedy, another close friend, to take Johnson on his ticket as the vice presidential candidate. [37][38], In 1975, Graham received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. By Stephen Meyer Nov 16, 2017. Mrs. Graham loved being involved with the news, calling or dropping by the offices of her editors for updates on what the newspaper was covering. She could also be extremely forceful, and she could match Ben Bradlee's well-known facility for colorful language. Showing 30 distinct works. That's the way I viewed myself.". On Sept. 20, 1963, after a month's cruise in the Aegean with her mother and daughter and some friends, she assumed the presidency of the company. With Meg Greenfield, who in 1979 succeeded Geyelin as editor of the editorial page, she sometimes sneaked away from the newspaper for an afternoon at the movies. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. Characteristically modest about her accomplishment, Mrs. Graham, then 80, was amazed that she had won a Pulitzer Prize. "You inherit something and you do what you can," she said. It ended with replacement workers being hired. Meyer's summary of this opening talk can easily be misunderstood. Elizabeth Morris Lally Graham 1943 Married in 1964 toYann Ralph Weymouth We supported the war too long. Steve served in the Air Force, and following his service, graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook with a degree in History, and received his PhD in . An important book of both breadth and depth." -- Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia [31][30] Graham later observed that it was "especially strange of [Mitchell] to call me Katie, which no one has ever called me. Global Teachers Conference group IBM Leadership Award Forum St. Petersburg Lifestyle Bentley Motors group Rotary Club International "[46], On July 14, 2001, Graham fell and struck her head while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho; she died three days later at the age of 84. Graham's . [9] Her siblings included Florence, Eugene III (Bill), Ruth and Elizabeth Meyer. His only son, Eugene III, who was called "Bill," had become a physician, and Meyer didn't think the role of publisher was suitable for a woman. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He is survived by his wife, Margo Anderson, and children Jennifer Meyer Stearns (James Stearns), Rachel Sherry Meyer (Marlo Mrak), Stephen Eugene Meyer (Joy Zotalis), Eric Joseph Meyer (Melissa Czarnik), grandchildren Graham, Liam, Stella, and Theo, and many other family. With the first edition already on the presses, she received a call at her home, where she was giving a party for a retiring Washington Post business executive. . In "Personal History," Mrs. Graham said her biggest handicap was a sense of being inadequate for the task that had befallen her. . Originally, she supported the U.S. effort, but this gave way to doubt as success seemed further and further away and the protest movement gathered force at home. Philip Graham se convirti en editor del Post en 1946, cuando Eugene Meyer entreg el peridico a su yerno. The sale was conducted under the supervision of a bankruptcy court on the steps of the old Post building on E Street NW near the Willard Hotel. Her father bought The Washington Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction. William Graham died at 69 on December 20, 2017, in his Los Angeles home. ", Former D.C. mayor Marion Barry, who was often strongly criticized by The Post's editorial page, praised Mrs. Graham yesterday as a publisher "who worked hard to try to get the editorial policies and newsroom of The Post to reflect Washington itself and its people." . On Jan. 1, 1946, he became associate publisher. The pressmen maintained a picket line for many more weeks, but the strike was over, as was their union's existence at The Post. The position went to Howard University-educated lawyer Walter Washington. It also involved possible consequences for The Post that threatened its financial stability. In Chicago, she became quite interested in labor issues and shared friendships with people from walks of life very different from her own. "She was a convener. Mrs. Graham did not know Bradlee well when they joined forces, but she admired his toughness and his eye for good stories and good reporters. Mrs. Graham guided The Washington Post through two of the most celebrated episodes in American journalism, the publication in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government history of the war in Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal, which led to Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the presidency in 1974 under the threat of impeachment. "The paper, really the company, always has been the most important thing in her whole life," he said. And that was no choice at all.". Stephen Meyer Philosopher of Science Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. Mrs. Graham took over the company in 1963 after the suicide of her husband, Philip L. Graham, who had run the company since 1946. When her husband went to the Pacific as an intelligence officer, she returned to her work at The Post. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. She was also portrayed by Alison Brie in the 2017 film The Post. Stephen C. Meyer. Privately, though, she was in deep despair. "Ned" McLean, who had squandered a fortune and was confined to a psychiatric hospital. [citation needed], Her older sister Florence Meyer was a successful photographer and wife of actor Oscar Homolka. You know, good old Mom, plodding along. . (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). Katharine Graham assumed the reins of the company and of the Post after Philip Graham's suicide. Stephen Meyer Graham. In 2002, Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[45]. Smith, J. Y. So he offered it to his son-in-law, and after talking it over with his wife, Philip Graham agreed. Stephen Meyer in Graham, WA Stephen Meyer may also have lived outside of Graham, such as Chehalis, Carnation and 2 other cities in Washington. ", The Princess of Wales visited Mrs. Graham in Washington on several occasions during the period when Diana was struggling through a divorce from Britain's Prince Charles. Associated persons: David F Albright, Deborah K Albright, Gregory Charles Burkett, Candice Griffin, Earla Spencer (386) 752-6700 . After she hired him as an assistant managing editor in 1965, Bradlee quickly moved up to managing editor and then executive editor. (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). She'll surprise you.". Press runs often were so late that morning delivery schedules were missed. When friends persuaded her to pay attention to clothes, she patronized Halston, Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass. A senator ) returned to her work at the newspaper, Mr. Graham played a role. 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