Ochs

For many years I have read the New York Times. I have a print and a digital subscription and read it every day – not all of it, but some of it each day. For the print copy, I have a subscription to the international edition. That includes only a few of the latest articles, but it’s nice to get it. I wish I could get the full paper on Sundays.

The NY Times started in 1851. Although there were many newspapers in the country, and a few in New York city, it was moderately successful for many years. However, after the founders died, their children were not very good at managing the paper. The result was that circulation was down significantly and they were loosing money.

In 1896, Adolph Ochs purchased the paper at a fairly low price. He had nearly twenty years of experience as publisher of the Chattanooga Times. In a short time, he lowered the price by two-thirds, but increased revenues to be profitable. Circulation went from around nine thousand people to seven-hundred eighty thousand.

As publisher, Ochs pushed for more timely stories, hired more investigative journalists, as well as war correspondents. They became the only newspaper in New York to offer unbiased news. It’s reputation is still highly regarded. Och died in 1935, but his daughter and her progeny ran the paper, successfully. Och’s grandson, Dash Sulzberger is the current publisher. Today they have over nine million subscribers from around the world.

Note

The stamp of Aldolf Ochs is done in the old style in which people were drawn in newspapers. I think Wall Street Journal was one of the last big papers to do that. Sometimes it makes them look too serious and a little sad, but I miss that style of news portraits. They never did scenes though, just single portraits.

Contains 12 spots: own 12 – 12 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Summer Olympics

1.1	✓	1697	Running	13c (jul 1976) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1698	Figure Skating	13c (jul 1976) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	1695	Diving	13c (jul 1976) comm., multicolor
1.4	✓	1696	Skiing	13c (jul 1976) comm., multicolor

Famous Americans

2.1	✓	1699	Clara Maass Newark German Hospital	13c (aug 1976) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	1700	Adolph S. Ochs N.Y. Times Publisher	13c (sep 1976) comm., black & grey

Other

3.1	✓	1683	Alexander G. Bell 100 Years	13c (mar 1976) comm., red & black & purple
3.2	✓	1684	Commercial Aviation 50 Years	13c (mar 1976) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	1685	Chemistry	13c (apr 1976) definitive, multicolor

Christmas & Holidays

4.1	✓	1702	Winter Pasttime Nathaniel Currier	13c (oct 1976) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	1703	Winter Pasttime Nathaniel Currier	13c (oct 1976) comm., multicolor
4.3	✓	1701	Nativity John Singleton Copely	13c (oct 1976) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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