They have a television station . Posts direct from Stephen will be signed with ~S. Mrs. Graham recalled that "curiously I not only concurred but was in complete accord with the idea. [13] Katharine recounts in her autobiography, Personal History, how she did not feel slighted by the fact her father gave the Post to Philip rather than her: "Far from troubling me that my father thought of my husband and not me, it pleased me. [39], In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Graham's name and picture.[40]. Stories in The Post about Mrs. Graham's many friends were handled in the same way as stories about anyone else. After the New York Times obtained the Pentagon Papers and began publishing stories about them, the Nixon administration obtained a court order barring further publication pending a final higher court decision. When the war began, The Post supported it. In 2017, Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film The Post. Other important advisers were James Reston, the chief of the New York Times bureau in Washington, and Walter Lippmann, the columnist. Throughout her life, she was attracted to great men she knew, from Auguste Rodin, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Claudel and Thomas Mann to Adlai Stevenson and Earl Warren. "Partly this arose from my particular experience, but to the extent that it stemmed from the narrow way women's roles were defined, it was a trait shared by most women in my generation. These relationships, often reaching across party and ideological divisions, were nurtured at the large dinners and receptions she held in her home. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. Nora Ephron of the New York Times, who was at one point married to Carl Bernstein, raved about Graham's autobiography. and she tried to do all she could to bring about healing among the races.". Mr. Stephen W Meyer, PAC, is a Physician Assistant specialist in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. In 1973, she and her management team found during a wildcat walkout that nonunion Post workers, trained to use new computer and photocomposition technology, could put out the paper without the printers. After graduating from college in 1938, she got a job on the San Francisco News for $24 a week. 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. Within days after her husband's death, Mrs. Graham told the board of directors that The Post Co. would stay in the family. He gave control of the company to his daughter Katharine's husband Philip Graham in 1946. But Post Co. Chairman Fritz Beebe, who joined the debate at Bradlee's home, found the editor and his staff determined to print their own Pentagon Papers stories in the next day's Post. 464 Graham Ave, Camarillo. 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). Revenue grew nearly twentyfold, the company acquired numerous new businesses, and it became a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. [16][17], Graham was also known for a long-time friendship with Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned a substantial stake in the Post. He was twice committed to Chestnut Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Rockville. Eugene Meyer, the son of a prosperous Alsatian Jewish immigrant, was born in Los Angeles. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. "What I essentially did," she said, "was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. In 1957, he suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the couple's farm in Marshall, Va., to recuperate. September 28, 2021 555 15 10734 I have struggled with writing a review of Stephen Meyer's book, Return of the God Hypothesis, since I finished it a few weeks ago. By 1969, the newspaper had become a major critic of U.S. policy. Press runs often were so late that morning delivery schedules were missed. They soon became friends as well as colleagues -- there was a special chemistry between them. 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. She kept the wooden wringer in her corporate office, near her desk. Her mother was a bohemian intellectual, art lover, and political activist in the Republican Party, who shared friendships with people as diverse as Auguste Rodin, Marie Curie, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Dewey[2] and Saul Alinsky. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. All along the way, her heart remained in The Washington Post, of which she once said: "When my husband died, I had three choices. It pitted the First Amendment of the Constitution and its guarantee of the right to publish against the government's right to protect secrets. Mrs. Graham also accepted and capitalized on her growing global stature. 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. 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. On June 13, 1933, a box on Page 1 announced that Meyer was the new owner. Her son, Donald, The Post Co.'s current chairman and CEO, also was attending the conference. 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. [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. Meyer concentrated on advertising, circulation and the editorial page, which soon gained stature as a forum for discussion of public affairs. ", She was no longer the person who, in the 1960s, had "adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.". She was criticized for her missteps -- often, she thought, rightly so. And in 1948, he and his wife became the controlling owners of the company. "[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. He is known for his roles in the films Snatch, Public Enemies, This Is England, The Irishman, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and the series Boardwalk Empire, among many other works. 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. 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. Moreover, if convicted of a felony under the espionage laws cited in the Times case, the company would lose the licenses for its two Florida TV stations, then worth about $100 million. They were married on June 5, 1940, settling down in a two-story row house on 37th Street NW that was just wide enough for a door and one window. "I loved my job, I loved the paper, I loved the whole company," she said. Ethnicity: African-Jamaican (paternal grandfather), Swedish, English, Irish. Zweigenhaft, Richard L. and G. William Domhoff, Graham, K., Personal History, Vintage Books 1998, Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, Katharine Graham Funeral Service, July 23, 2001, USA Today: "Personal History" By Katharine Graham, The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies, "Who Is William Graham? In 1979, Deborah Davis published a book titled Katharine the Great about Graham. [5][6][7][8] Along with her four siblings, Katharine was baptized as a Lutheran but attended an Episcopal church. The Post's pressmen, he told her, had gone on a rampage. Mrs. Graham was impressed, and it counted a great deal with her that Lippmann and Reston were admirers of Bradlee. By Mrs. Graham's own account, the most difficult part of her business career was a bitter, 139-day strike by the pressmen's union at The Post in 1975 and 1976 that began when strikers set fire to part of the pressroom. "In fact, it never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important job at the paper.". She gave two dinners for Reagan and hosted introductory dinners for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush after their elections as president. William W. Graham, a scion of the iconic Washington Post publishers Phil and Katharine Graham, died at the age of 69 as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ", After Nixon's resignation, the newspaper's role in unraveling the Watergate story produced, among other things, worldwide acclaim for Mrs. Graham and the paper, a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service, a Robert Redford movie based on the Woodward and Bernstein book "All the President's Men" -- and discomfort as well as pleasure for the paper's publisher. Mrs. Graham is survived by her son Donald E. 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. 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. When she drove to the paper early on the morning of Oct. 1, Mrs. Graham found firetrucks, police cars, flashing red lights and shouting pickets. Graham does not appear in the film adaptation of All The President's Men, but Robert Redford, who plays Woodward, revealed that Graham had a scene written for her in earlier versions where she asks Woodward and Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) about the Watergate story, beginning with, "What are you doing with my paper? 12. In the spring of 1939, at her father's behest, she returned to Washington to edit the letters to the editor at The Post. Donald Edward Graham was born two years later. Mr. After graduating from the Madeira School, she went to Vassar. She once complained to Bradlee that "clothes, fashion, interiors and the frothy side are all taking a hosing and I am quite fed up with the really heedless eggheadedness of Style. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. Their first baby died at birth. His other film roles include Tommy in Snatch (2000), Shang in Gangs of New York (2002), Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies . "And so the person who succeeds you inherits something different, and you add to it or you subtract from it or you do whatever you do. Like his father, Phil Graham, he died by suicide. Founded in 1979 by Stephen Graham, New York Theatre Workshop is one of the leading producing theatres of new work in the United States, The company's very first production was A Day in the Life of the Czar, written by Frank O'Hara and V.R. Stephen Graham Birth Name: Stephen Graham Kelly Birth Place: Liverpool, Merseyside, England Profession Actor Actor 60 Credits The Walk-In 2022 White House Farm 2020 Little Boy Blue 2017 Decline. Philip Leslie Phil Graham (July 18, 1915 August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. "He was so glamorous that I was perfectly happy just to clean up after him. The Pentagon Papers was such a story. But however sympathetic she may have been toward labor, as a publisher she was exasperated by the powers that Post production unions had been ceded because of long-standing management fears that a strike would send readers and advertisers fleeing to the Washington Star. Let the Times carry the burden of the First Amendment argument against the government, they said. . Stephen Meyer Graham Parents : Philip Leslie Graham 1915-1963; Publisher, "The Washington Post" Katharine Meyer 1917-2001; Publisher, "The Washington Post" Siblings. Her dinner parties and receptions were more than just glittering social occasions. Every year on March 2 they celebrate "Graham Day," honoring their namesake and her accomplishments.[36]. Like his father, Phil Graham, he died by suicide. "[30] The Post published the quote, although Bradlee cut the words her tit. Associated persons: David F Albright, Deborah K Albright, Gregory Charles Burkett, Candice Griffin, Earla Spencer (386) 752-6700 . Refine Your Search Results Sort by RelevanceSort by Age (Ascending)Sort by Age (Descending) All Filters 2 Steven Raymond Meyer, 63 Resides in Graham, WA Lived InSeattle WA, Carnation WA The first profit was not recorded until World War II, and the paper slipped back into the red when peace was declared. Katharine endured a strained relationship with her mother. ", Warren Buffett, the legendary stock investor and the company's largest shareholder outside the Graham family, became a close friend and business mentor to Mrs. Graham after he began buying large amounts of Post stock soon after it was first offered publicly in the l970s. He and many other members of the family were at the hospital in Boise when she died. Peaky Blinders - Hayden Stagg. 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 Characteristically modest about her accomplishment, Mrs. Graham, then 80, was amazed that she had won a Pulitzer Prize. Katharine Graham worked as a newspaper publisher in the United States. Supporters said the process showed she set high standards and insisted that they be met. Katharine Graham was born on June 16, 1917. 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. While running the newspaper, he played a backstage role in politics. In 1974, Graham became the first woman elected to the board of directors at the Associated Press. "Stephen Meyer is a genuine renaissance person. She was a big influence in Washington in part because of that. [12], Philip Graham became publisher of the Post in 1946, when Eugene Meyer handed over the newspaper to his son-in-law. In 1960, he helped persuade John F. Kennedy, another close friend, to take Johnson on his ticket as the vice presidential candidate. and they're going to have to get it renewed." . The medications that are now used successfully to treat the illness were not then available. Within a decade, she was making momentous decisions about the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. People named Stephen Meyer. "It isn't right for a publisher to tell an editor what to do or not to do. In 1987, Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. 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 . One of her first important decisions was one of her most successful. Stephen Graham, who was so brilliant in last year's BBC mini-series Time, and who gets an executive producer credit here, is on fire as Andy Jones, the already rattled head chef whose world is . He is predeceased by his brother, James. Graham presided over the Post at a crucial time in its history. 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 connected local, national and international figures she met with each other, with Post and Newsweek journalists and with her friends in the Washington establishment. Steve was born in Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 1942, to Edith and Stephen Meyer Jr. - Stephen Meyer at Dallas Science Faith Conference 2020 Discovery Science Mathematical Challenges to Darwin's Theory of Evolution 130K views Sir Roger Penrose: Are Singularities Real? daughter Elizabeth (nicknamed Lally) in 1943 and sons Don, Bill and . +8.90 +0.48%. And a Wall Street friend with administration contacts ominously warned Mrs. Graham "not to be alone. The printers got the point: In September 1974, in return for cash buyouts and guaranteed lifetime jobs, they agreed to accept the new technology. The most difficult task, however, was transforming The Post Co. from a relatively small, family-owned business into a major modern corporation. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Katharine Meyer was born in 1917 into a wealthy family in New York City, to Agnes Elizabeth (ne Ernst) and Eugene Meyer. Although she eventually lost her early diffidence, it was widely remarked that she projected an aura of vulnerability long after she had become a respected figure on the world stage. After two years, she transferred to the University of Chicago and joined the liberal wing of the American Student Union. Among them was a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, Philip Leslie Graham. 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. "She was a convener. ", 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." But you never totally control it. In 1973, Graham received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Through the years, her manner remained the same. But Bradlee pressed for publication, and editorial page editor Geyelin said that "there's more than one way to destroy a newspaper. The decision would have to be Mrs. Graham's. Shy and vulnerable, she was terrified of asking dumb questions and making mistakes as she entered the mostly male world of publishing, she said later. 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. Any criminal prosecution could imperil the company's then-imminent public offering of $35 million in stock. Other young staff members introduced her to a group of young men who shared a house, first a row house on S Street NW, then a large house and grounds in Arlington called Hockley Hall. "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. [43], In 2000, Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.[44]. sort by. But she wouldn't waver in her determination to have management manage the pressroom and to remove any pressmen involved in the violence, two of the terms the union wouldn't accept. We look back at some of his best TV and movie roles, below. He had been born in the mining town of Terry, S.D., and raised in Florida, where his father made a career in farming, real estate and politics. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Washington National Cathedral. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. 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). Following up on Richard Dawkins's attempted takedown of Stephen Meyer's bike-lock analogy ("It's irrelevantbecause natural selection is a NONRANDOM process"), our Biologic Institute colleague Douglas Axe joined the conversation over at Why Evolution Is True. Agnes was reportedly very negative and condescending towards Katharine, which had a negative impact on Meyer's self-confidence. Bradlee twice turned down promotions that would have required him to move to New York. Every time I pick it up to. Her mother, Agnes Meyer, was born in New York and was an active patron of the arts and supporter of education. A year later, after $20 million had been spent, it too was sold. There, at age 48, he killed himself with a shotgun. . 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. ", 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. Once I found myself in the deepest water in the middle of the current, there was no going back. 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 When she had taken control of the newspaper in 1963, The Post Co. had revenue of $84 million. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. "The nation's capital and our entire nation today mourn the loss of the beloved first lady of Washington and American journalism, Katharine Graham," President Bush said in a statement yesterday. She had an impact because she brought together people who had something to say. Services: Viewing will be on Sunday, March 5th from 4:00 to 7:00 pm at McCrery & Harra Funeral Home, 3710 Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington. "The uncertainties, the difficulties, the violence against the people who were working, the fear that the Star would use the opportunity to turn the tables, were all overwhelming," she said. As a young woman living in Paris, she knew many luminaries of the art world. Complaints from readers and advertisers proliferated. In My Heart is a Chainsaw, the first book in his Indian Lake Trilogy, Stephen Graham Jones devised a climactic scene in which scores of people watching the movie Jaws while floating on the lake over the 4th of July are suddenly engulfed in a tornadic . Mrs. Graham had written some of the introductory material for pieces she was considering even though she was not certain the book would work out. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. His book Return of the God . She also was active in groups seeking to improve public education in Washington. 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. She denounced various stories as "bitchy," "tasteless," "snide" or "grisly." Showing 30 distinct works. She could also be extremely forceful, and she could match Ben Bradlee's well-known facility for colorful language. She also served as chairman of the newspaper publishers group. I just admired and liked her a whole lot.". 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. Her parents, banker Eugene Meyer and author . "I was beside myself with worry," Mrs. Graham said. Suddenly, four challenges were filed against the company's Florida TV license renewals, triggering a 50 percent plunge in the price of Post stock. And she later bought and renovated a house on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where in the summer she entertained streams of friends. They gave their children the advantages of great wealth but also led busy lives of their own. Inside The Post, Mrs. Graham worked cheerfully beside the others, taking classified ads, bundling papers in the mailroom, fielding subscriber complaints and cleaning up trash in the pressroom, where newly trained employees had begun to run the presses as they were repaired. I could find somebody else to run it. Meyer founded Allied Chemical Co. 8,671 Followers. 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